Businesses need to brush up language skills to compete on the world stage
By David Craik
The government should help businesses improve employees’ foreign language skills through tax breaks or grants, according to a leading entrepreneur in the space.
Tag: Graduates
How picking attitude over aptitude saw me hire someone at a petrol station
By Ed Reeves
The fact that the likes of EY and Ritz Carlton are turning the recruitment process on its head is evidence enough for Moneypenny founder Ed Reeves that a new approach is needed, where paying close attention to the attitude of a potential recruit will lead to hiring the best.
Entrepreneurial SMEs: The best fit for ambitious, wild card university grads
By Jan Cavelle
Despite a record number of successful A Level results and graduate placements, there is still an absolute record ruddy skill shortage in this country – which is holding great companies back. Crazy isn’t it – and it isn’t just the government that isn’t listening.
David Cameron backs BT’s plan for 1,000 new British apprenticeships and graduate jobs
BT plans to create 1,000 new apprenticeships and graduate jobs for young people across the UK in 2015 and 2016, and prime minister David Cameron has welcomed the recruitment drive and attempt to close the skills gap.
SecretSales founders: Digital graduates are flocking to pure tech groups rather than ecommerce
By David Craik
Whisper it, but SecretSales has had plenty to boast about in the last twelve months.
Almost half of UK employers had unfilled graduate vacancies in 2013 to 2014
Some 44.8 per cent of British businesses had unfilled graduate vacancies in 2013 to 2014, according to the Association of Graduate Recruiters, as AGR members said there were 1,422 positions that were not filled last year – partly due to the rejection of offers.