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Networking is a key tool for anyone looking for employment and can help you develop useful career contacts. Networking is easy if you know how and people looking for employment whether it be temp or permanent work who develop their own employment contacts need never be short of carer advice and job offers.

There are many ways to network and develop contacts. The main ones being using employer websites, work experience, paid employment, recruitment agencies and social occasions.

So if you are looking for employment try using the above areas to get networking and devloping useful contacts that could help you in future careers.

Tags: Useful work information by Andrew // Add a comment »

A big congratulations to Hilton International who have cancelled contracts with three well known (but unnamed) contract agencies after an investigation discovered illegal practices.

Some of the companies were providing housekeeping staff were getting around minimum hourly wage laws by paying cleaners on a per room basis.

Hilton are looking at centralising their recruitment process, we’ll contact them and get their jobs on UKTemps shortly.

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According to academics swearing at work is good for you and helps you cope with stress.

A study of leadership styles by the University of East Anglia found the use of taboo language boosted team spirit. They also warned bosses that preventing workers from swearing may have a negative impact.

The study suggested that taboo language serves the needs of people for devloping and maintaing solidarity, and as a mechanism to cope with stress. Banning it could backfire and cause issues in the workpalce.

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Christmas is seen as the time of excess and people have already started to organise their Christmas shopping but will the once bouyant retail industry have the same numbers of opportunities for seasonal temp workers as it has in previous years?
The chances are that there will be some but the high street and shopping centre is losing the battle that is has been waging with the websites and I think we are more likely to see an increase in warehouse and call centre work as more and more people use the click of the mouse to purchase their christmas wish lists!!
Let us know our views….?

Tags: Seasonal News, Christmas jobs news, Industry, Graduate News, Retail News, Factory News by Fraser // Add a comment »

A recent survey of the UK employment market has found that employers are resorting to migrant workers to fill the ever increasing skills gap rather than utilising home grown talent that is just a bit older. The stigmatism of age still seems to exist in the market.
We are relying on the migrant workforce who, it has been estimated, have filled some 52% of vacancies across the UK in the last 10 years.
Businesses are going to have to come to terms with the fact that the older generation are a better source of employee, they they need to be retained and developed more effectively in the coming years……

Tags: Industry, Regional News by Fraser // Add a comment »