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UK / Securing a job after leaving university depend heavily on where they choose to study
UK – Students at Robert Gordon, Glasgow Caledonian and Derby universities outperformed Oxford and Cambridge graduates when it came to securing jobs or places on postgrad courses last year Continue reading
UK / Jobs requiring degrees on entry reached an all time high while jobs requiring no qualifications fell to historically low levels says a report
This report provides new evidence on whether employers in Britain are doing so and whether jobs are being upskilled. Continue reading
Bullying in UK / One in five NHS workers in North-East
ONE in five NHS workers in the North-East claim to have been bullied by colleagues while almost half reported they have witnessed bullying in the last six months, according to a new survey Continue reading
UK / Financial services shed 10,000 jobs in three months
The financial services sector is thought to have shed 10,000 jobs in the three months to June despite strong growth in business volumes, the CBI employers’ group and PwC have reported. The industry expects to create 1,000 jobs in the next quarter, according to the latest survey of 94 companies by the CBI and PwC, … Continue reading
UK / 46 applications for every graduate vacancy this year
Nearly 50 graduates on average are applying for every job this year amid fierce competition for the best career openings, new research shows. Well in excess of 100 applications for each position are being sent to some employers, such as consumer goods and media companies. A report suggests there has been a rise in the … Continue reading
UK / 46% Believe that older workers should retire for younger finds survey
In the survey, 46 per cent of people agreed with the proposition that older members of staff should retire so that younger workers could have a genuine chance of promotion Continue reading
UK / What can the Employability and Careers Centre do for you? (Video)
Advice on applying for a frontrunner placements and and how the Employability and Careers Centre can help you Continue reading
UK / More than 20,000 of last year’s graduates were unemployed six months after leaving university
More than 20,000 of last year’s graduates were unemployed six months after leaving university Continue reading
Direct Line to cut 2,000 jobs
Direct Line Insurance has said that it is planning to cut 2,000 UK jobs as it steps up plans to reduce costs. The firm announced in August 2012 plans to reduce gross annual costs by £100m a year, but now plans to save more than double this target. Continue reading
UK / OECD warns over NEETs (Not in Education Nor in Employment)
In the UK, almost a quarter of British people under the age of 30 who do not have secondary school qualifications such as five good GCSEs are neither employed, nor in education, or training, and known as “Neet” Continue reading
UK / Business Leaders for Flexible working: the Agile Future Forum
If implemented successfully by business leaders, workforce agility can offer sustainable business performance and engaged employees Continue reading
British Army / Redundancy notices send to 4,480 soldiers as campaign for 10,000 new recruits is launched
More than 4,000 soldiers have been axed in the latest round of defence job cuts. The Ministry of Defence today announced 4,480 redundancy letters have been sent to troops under plans to cut the number of regulars to 82,000 by 2018. But the government was accused of a ‘failed strategy’ as it launched a recruitment … Continue reading
UK / Grads job search starting earlier than ever
Forty-one per cent of finalists said they made at least one job application to a graduate employer almost a year before graduation, according to a poll of more than 18,000 students at 30 UK universities by High Fliers Research, published on 13 June. That compares to the 37 per cent who applied early – in … Continue reading
UK / Employment rate among migrant men higher than for Brits
FOREIGN workers have done better out of the recession than British men, a study has found. Despite a drop in overall employment, male migrants in the UK have enjoyed higher levels of work than “native-born men” since 2007, according to a leading thinktank. The trend has reversed a pre-crisis shortfall in employment and migrants are … Continue reading
UK / Student interns three times more likely to get at least one definite job offer
Research shows that some 36 per cent of students completing a work experience placement had received at least one definite job offer by the Easter of their final year compared with just 11 per cent of other undergraduates. Experts warned that work experience was “no longer an option extra” for universities and had increasingly become … Continue reading
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