Businesses are struggling to access the skills they need to thrive, with 39% of hiring managers finding that uncertainty around Brexit has directly impacted access to talent. The survey also revealed that a further 25% of respondents anticipate that the UK’s exit from the union will have a negative impact on skills availability in the near future.
| Published: 11 December 2018
Young Brits insist there’s no such thing as a "job for life" in this day and age according to a new study by JOB TODAY, the number one hiring app in the UK. Researchers polled 2,000 people and discovered the average 16-29 year old expects to be in his or her current job for just four and a half months.
| Published: 11 December 2018
Most UK homeowners, if they’re being honest with themselves, will say they’ve had a great run over the past five years. This period began after the market pulled its face out of the mud of a horrible 2012, when plenty of property just would not budge and prices fell throughout the year.
| Published: 10 December 2018
Hiring process is failing candidates and companies due to complex, unresponsive and ineffective pre-hire assessments. Two-fifths of job-seekers are being hired into new roles only to discover they have the wrong soft skills for the job, and over half (53 percent) are leaving companies because their personality or work style didn’t fit.
| Published: 10 December 2018
Debt, separation and bullying are the personal issues of most concern to employers when it comes to employee mental health, according to Aon, a leading global professional services firm providing a broad range of risk, retirement and health solutions (NYSE: AON).
| Published: 9 December 2018
This is compounded by staff training ranking as one of the weakest progress categories measured against the NIST cybersecurity framework. The majority of executives (87 percent) around the world cite untrained staff as the greatest cyber risk to their business.
| Published: 9 December 2018
New research reveals global businesses must overcome significant barriers to embrace next era of connectivity. New research commissioned by international law practice Osborne Clarke reveals that businesses in Germany and the Netherlands could be leading the global race to embracing next-generation connectivity.
| Published: 8 December 2018
As the debate over default pathways at-retirement continues, please see comments below from Jonathan Watts-Lay, Director . “I find the idea of defaulting members into something without a positive choice being made extremely worrying for a number of reasons.”
| Published: 8 December 2018
Demand for ‘Hybrid PAs’, who combine traditional PA skills with specialist knowledge in areas such as marketing, events and project management, has driven a 36 percent increase in permanent support staff roles in 2018. The report into the UK’s support staff market also reveals a 11 percent growth in salaries, significantly higher than the national average.
| Published: 7 December 2018
UK workers are due to get an average real-terms pay rise of 1.1 percent in 2019, which would be an improvement on the 0.5 percent they received in 2018, and is also fractionally greater than the European average of 0.8 percent, according to research.
| Published: 7 December 2018
