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Recruitment dries up, but training and career progression opportunities open up as employers focus on retention
While job seekers continue to face a tough time in the labour market, there are real opportunities for those already in work to secure development and promotion opportunities, according to the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD). Despite the recession, employers have continued to strive to secure the skills they need - but are turning to retention and staff development rather than recruitment as their weapons of choice.
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AGEING WORKFORCE CONTRIBUTING TO RISING DEMAND FOR OIL AND GAS ENGINEERS OVERSEAS 50 percent INCREASE IN REQUIREMENTS FOR CONTRACTORS IN LAST 18 MONTHS
Despite the job casualties among North Sea oil and gas workers, international demand is very much on an upward curve. That's according to engineering recruitment specialist CBSbutler. 'Organisations have learned harsh lessons from the halt on building programmes instigated during the last oil price lull of the late 1980s and 90s and are probably running at about three years behind,' says David Leyshon, managing Director of CBSbutler. 'Consequently, large projects such as those in Nigeria, Croatia and the Caspian Sea are going ahead in the hope that oil prices will be buoyant once the projects are completed.'
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UK labour market recession one-year-on: Puzzling claimant unemployment count is sole, tentative 'green shoot', against grim background of 0.7 million private sector jobs lost
Official labour market figures published earlier today by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) show a further steep rise in UK unemployment in the February-April quarter. John Philpott, Chief Economist at the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) described the figures as 'grim but not unexpected' but added that figures for the number of people claiming Jobseeker's Allowance (the claimant count) were 'amazingly good given what we know about the state of the jobs market, though too puzzling to yet be seen as a genuine 'green shoot'.
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Inspiration and Innovation: It's Culture Based
As the result of an overlooked error, he accidentally created a new product which made his company many millions of profit dollars. So goes the story of another 'aha' and the success of Post-It Notes. What was there about the workplace culture and leadership style that allowed risk taking and innovation, celebrated a mistake and created a hero? Lorraine Weygman tells the tale.
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Managers urged to take control of their business by training on National Learning at Work Day
Ahead of National Learning at Work Day tomorrow, the Learning and Skills Council (LSC) has urged managers across the country to take control of their business through training.
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