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Controversy about the government’s use of ‘unpaid’ work experience programmes to help the unemployment into work has continued unabated. The government believes that the cycle of no work experience and no work can be broken by government-led schemes, however opponents argue that forcing the unemployed to take up work experience opportunities with employers or lose [...]

Over the past 12 months I’ve seen a lot of talk in various discussion forums about the poor service that people receive from 3rd party recruiters (recruitment agencies). Whether the person is a candidate, a client, or both; One aspect where nearly all the “complainers” have their arguments flawed is in their broad assumption that [...]

Vanilla Seminar – January 25th Vanilla Recruitment is delighted to present an interactive seminar in conjunction with Denise Mather of OPAL – Changing Lives & DEMand RESULTS a local Personal Coach, Hypnotherapist and NLP Master Practitioner www.demandresults.co.uk. For more information or to book your place please click here or call Charlene on 01858 898 058 or email cbennett@vanillarecruitment.co.uk.  

Each day over 140,000 people go into work with a hangover with a cumulative impact of £6.4 billion cost to the UK economy, triggering the launch of employee breath screening technology in workplaces. Alcohol misuse is estimated to cost UK business £48,000 every minute. But unlike other schemes that often penalise and cause mistrust amongst [...]

A survey by Jobsite has found that 24% of candidates are using their mobile to look for jobs. While 17% of respondents said they currently use their mobiles to check for job alert emails, a further 6% are using apps to search for jobs and 1% are searching job sites directly.