Gather employee feedback with these free HR survey templates
Gathering employee feedback (be they past, future or present) can often be a difficult task, but the benefits can be very rewarding to a business and it’s objectives. Conducting surveys can be a great way to provide employees and human resource specialists with a means to express their opinions, in return you’ll get valuable feedback […]
Increase staff morale with these top 5 employment benefits
As the old adage goes “A happy workforce is a productive workforce”, people who work for a company which supports them reciprocate with increased output, enthusiasm and devotiveness i.e. they go the extra mile. One way to increase staff morale is to provide them with employment benefits, often referred to as “perks of the job” […]
Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games recruitment campaign gets off to flying start
A recent article written by the bbc reports that after only one day of a planned recruitment drive for the commonwealth games in Glasgow 2014, a staggering 10,000 people have volunteered themselves for positions. Organisers are looking for 15,000 in total but if the first day was anything to go buy they shouldn’t have many […]
2012 – Year of the placement!
Trying to find a job after leaving University is getting tougher and tougher as 1 in 5 graduates struggle to find a job. One of the most effective ways to gain employment is gaining some valuable industry experience. Employers are finding that graduates who have taken a years industry placement have better employable skills compared to those […]
UK ranks fourth internationally for creating a diverse and inclusive workforce
Good news for us brits, new research reveals that The UK has been ranked fourth internationally for creating a diverse and inclusive workforce. The research, which is highlighted in CEB’s study ‘Creating Competitive Advantage Through Workforce Diversity’ goes on to reveal that nearly 63% of UK employees stated that their employers are actively promoting workplace […]
Pay award increases of 2.5% predicted for 2013
A recent survey conducted by XpertHR Pay and Benefits predicts that 7 pay awards out of 10 next year are likely to be worth between 2% and 3%. The survey goes on to reveal an analysis of the current pay settlements landscape, concluding that in the 3 months leading upto the end of September 2012, the […]
Recruitment stats for summer 2012
Evenbase a global digital recruitment group have released their quarterly recruitment report which reveals some interested facts… The fact that caught our eye the most is that the average number of vacancies advertised has risen from 5.7 to 7.7 per business since the previous quarter, which is a welcoming increase considering the recent economic climate. […]
Top 10 – Most wanted workers in the UK
Britain may have one of the largest economies on the planet; however there is still a shortage in skills and services that provide for our society. The top 10 areas of worker shortages are: 1. Teachers Teacher training courses for primary and secondary schools has fallen by 9 per cent in comparison to last year. This has […]
Job Searching with social media, the stats revealed
With the ever increasing prominence of social networking sites in our daily lives, brings along a spate of new methods of recruitment via social media. We recently stumbled across the very informative and lovely info-graphic put together by the team at Careerenlightenment.com which helps to highlight some of the facts they discovered over the past year […]
