As all the banks report on massive job cuts following poorer than hoped results it begs the question that hiring freezes will inevitably start (some have already). This is not good news for the market as a whole but for the temporary job market we will see a likely increase in activity. Given that the announcements will stay in place until the beginning of next year we are likely to see increased activity in temporary jobs.
Birmingham New Street stations redevelopment, due for completion in 2015, is thought to be bringing in thousands on jobs over the next 4 years. 10,000 jobs (temporary, part time and permanent) will be created generating over £2 billion for the local economy.
John Lewis alone has announced a new colossal store that will create in the region of 650 jobs in what will be its biggest store outside of London.
Tesco is thought to be hiring 9,000 new staff across the UK. Part of continued growth across Europe, Tesco will be creating 9,000 new jobs in call centres, distribution centres and the Tesco Bank.
Santander, the ever growing high street bank is to place greater emphasis on individual branch managers to hire their own staff directly.
The bank is thought to be planning to hire an additional 600 new staff to its branch network. This is thought to be an initiative to lead to more successful hires seeing that branch managers will then have greater responsibility for those new employees.
The UK job market has hit it’s lowest level of growth in 10 months. It raises new concerns about the strength and stability of the UK employment market. The public sector and some other sectors are beginning to feel job shortages.
Although job numbers have fallen for the first time in almost a year. There are some opportunities in some sectors, such as chefs, nurses, HR, finance, engineers and internet developers where vacancies still exist and skilled workers can source employment in both permanent and temporary jobs.
