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Gi Group teams up with SpaceUp For Innovation

31st January 2019

Gi Group teams up with SpaceUp For Innovation Funded by the EU Framework Programme for Research and Innovationv(Horizon 2020), SpaceUp aims to provide Europe’s innovative start-ups in the space sector the opportunity to scale up and become world leading companies. SpaceUp, with 10 consortiu...

UK Labour Market – Record high numbers in employment

26th January 2019

Latest UK Employment statistics released by ONS show the level of employment in the UK increased by 141,000 to a record high of 32.54 million in the three months to November 2018. Also a record high, and with 39,000 more than a year earlier, there were 853,000 job vacancies available in the perio...

UK Labour Market – Women in the workplace decreases

20th November 2018

This month’s ONS employment figures showed the number of employed men increased and the number of employed women decreased. Gi Group UK’s CEO, Bev White considers the implications this may have on the skills shortage and the measures businesses can take to redress this balance: “The number ...

GI GROUP ACQUIRES MARKS SATTIN STRENGTHENING SERVICE OFFERING

9th November 2018

Chesterfield, November 7, 2018 – Nationwide recruiter Gi Group has purchased the specialist financial recruitment firm to extend its offering into this new sector and enhance its presence in key strategic cities across the UK & Ireland. With offices in Birmingham, Dublin, Leeds, London,...

UK Labour Market – Youth unemployment declines

24th October 2018

In the latest Labour Force Survey released by the Office for National Statistics it was announced that the number of unemployed young people (aged 16 to 24 years) fell by 60,000 to 464,000 for the period June to August 2018. This represents the lowest figure since comparable records for unemploym...

Gi Group UK Opens New Scunthorpe Office

17th October 2018

Gi Group Scunthorpe has moved its business just a small distance but to larger premises at 165 High Street in the town centre. The move will create one new role at Gi Group but offer up to 120 new jobs for candidates over the coming months. On opening there will be 40 live job opportunities, with...

Gi Group helps students develop their employability skills

5th October 2018

On the 25th of September, Gi Group employees worked with 158 year 10 students from St Greg the Great School in Oxford to help them develop their employability skills. Using their recruitment expertise, Gi Group colleagues helped students understand the importance of having a strong CV to market t...

New international acquisition for Gi Group: Grafton Recruitment

3rd October 2018

The Group founded and led by Stefano Colli-Lanzi has completed the acquisition of Grafton Recruitment, one of the main European suppliers of permanent recruitment solutions & temporary staffing with a consolidated presence in Czech Republic, Poland, Slovakia and Hungary. Milan, September 28...

CANDIDATE RETENTION IS AS IMPORTANT AS ATTRACTION

28th September 2018

Recent Labour Market data released by the Office for National Statistics paints a familiar trend. 32.39 million people in work – 42,000 more than January to March 2018 and 313,000 more than the previous year. Unemployment is at 4% – the lowest it has been since 1974 and the number of EU nat...

UK Labour Market – Job Demand Continues

13th September 2018

In September’s release of figures from ONS – covering the UK Labour Market – there is not a huge change overall with the employment market remaining stable and another slight decrease in unemployment. However, scratching beneath the surface to look at specific sectors reveals an extre...

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