By Helen Taylor
Social media has become a powerful tool to assist in getting hired, expanding your connections and even gaining new clients. But it can also be detrimental to job hunting, and your career in general, if you don’t manage your accounts properly.
Promoting thousands of healthcare positions, ID Medical holds preferred supplier contracts with more than 80 per cent of NHS hospitals and private organisations.
Belfast-based 3FiveTwo is a private healthcare group comprising GP services, dentistry and more, and growth has been aided by long NHS waiting lists.
Nursing recruitment agency Plan B supports both NHS and private sectors, filling jobs across the UK.
Social media is no longer a mere source of entertainment, and has evolved to disrupt the recruitment process by offering businesses a much more innovative way to fill vacancies.
The bank-backed Business Growth Fund (BGF) has breached the £500m of equity investment level three and a half years after its first investment in October 2011, with £250m of that committed in the last year.
London’s Tech City may be the most publicised, but it certainly isn’t the only one, as proven by a study of the UK’s technology communities that found the demand for IT professionals across the nation grew in Q1 2015.
KPMG has teamed up with NatWest-powered business accelerator Entrepreneurial Spark in a partnership described as a “dream team,” which will see the professional services firm deliver 1,000 hours of support to British entrepreneurs each month.
The UK’s professional recruitment firms have 29 per cent more vacancies to advertise year-on-year, according to data from the Association of Professional Staffing Companies (APSCo), and IT and financial sectors are driving job opportunities.
There’s a growing demand for technology skills across the UK, as cities nationwide follow London’s Tech City design to encourage IT talent with competitive salaries as an added incentive.
