Source: Event Magazine

The event industry is set to meet MPs at the house of Lord’s in an unprecedented lobbying campaign spearheaded by the Business Visits & Events Partnership (BVEP) and Confex.

Source: Recruiter

The number of resignations among UK workers has increased in the past year, according to data from the Chartered Management Institute (CMI) and employment law service XpertHR.

The data collected from 43,312 individuals in 197 organisations reveals resignations levels stand at 4.7%, compared with 4.5% last year. ‘Internal transfers’ appear to be failing as an alternative option to leaving for workers, dropping to 3.6% from 5.8% last year.

More than half (53.8%) of employers said restructuring and job insecurity caused many of their staff to ‘jump ship’, while 38.5% disclosed that their failure to offer career opportunities and training contributed to employees leaving and 61.5% also admitted that their employees’ heads had been turned by headhunters and recruiters.

Ruth Spellman, chief executive of the CMI, says: “A year ago employers were looking at job transfers as a way of halting growth of the dole queue.  However, with the latest figures showing that staff are prepared to run the risk of unemployment by jumping ship, questions must be asked about employee engagement levels in organisations up and down the country.”

Source: Recruitment Consultant Magazine

Jobless figures released today by the ONS have shown the first fall in unemployment for 18 months.

The number of unemployed people in the UK during November – the latest figure released – shows 7,000 fewer people than the previous month.

This figure has been slightly skewed due to the rise in those taking on part-time work as a full-time position was unavailable.
The total number is 2.46m dropping to 7.8 per cent from October’s 7.9 per cent while the number of jobseeker allowance claimants also dropped to 1.61m.

This is 450,00 fewer than predicted to be out of work during the Budget.

Youth unemployment unexpectedly fell with the number of 16-24-year-olds out of work for the three-month period between September and November, down from 943,000 to 927,000.

Kevin Green, REC chief executive, said: “This is all positive news for job-seekers and confirms that the labour market is now in recovery mode. The REC was the first business organisation to predict we would not reach the three million unemployed mark.

“The road to full employment will be slow but these are encouraging figures today when viewed with increasing employer confidence and a return to hiring activity. It is now essential to avoid any kind of employment legislation which will add to employers’ costs and so hinder future job opportunities.”

Monster UK and Ireland managing director Julian Acquari said earlier: “Despite a still-struggling economy, UK job prospects are improving as employers slowly begin to emerge from financial crisis-induced recruitment hibernation. Clerical and support occupations are leading the way in terms of demand recovery, suggesting companies are primarily seeking temporary staff in order to maintain workforce flexibility as long as the economic uncertainty lingers. However, the uptick in HR opportunities also suggests that more organisations are preparing to increase personnel to take advantage of opportunities presenting themselves in the wake of the downturn.”

Minster for Employment Jim Knight, said: “These figures show the largest number of people coming off unemployment benefit for 15 years which is a sign that our £5bn investment to get people back to work is having an impact. The fact that tens of thousands more young people are taking up the Government’s guarantee of a place in education or training means that they are getting the valuable skills they need to get into work.

“New figures published today show that more than 25,000 people have benefited from the new Six Month Offer, while the sixth round of winning Future Jobs Fund bidders will create almost 6,000 more jobs for young people. This brings the total number of successful bids to create jobs through the Fund so far to almost 104,000. This is in addition to more than 400,000 people who have been helped into jobs through the Job Centres’ Local Employment Partnerships.”

Source: Event Magazine

A study by Meeting Professionals International (MPI) and American Express, entitled FutureWatch, has predicted shorter travel for meetings and events as well as shorter lead times in 2010 as business picks up.

THA founder starts event-focused business in wake of collapse

Source: Event Magazine

THA Group founder Kevin Ingram has started a Leicester-based company focusing on events, based at an office also registered to THA Holdings.

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BI set for THA Group asset acquisition

Source: C&IT Magazine

BI is understood to be finalising a deal to acquire some of the assets of THA Group, which entered administration this month.

Source: Event Magazine

A mammoth £12m government events roster put out to tender by the Central Office of Information (COI) last month attracted more than 1,000 applicants, Event can reveal.

The first stage of the process will be to weed out the applications that are not suitable.

Those agencies that do make it through and onto the roster will be able to compete for government and public sector work without going through an arduous procurement process

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Budget ‘09 - what the new budget means for the event industry

Source: Event Magazine

How is the Budget ‘09 going to affect your business? Here’s a guide to the main points for the event industry:

CV gaffes make for funny reading but no job offers

Source: Recruiter Magazine

Today is April Fools’ Day and in the spirit of the ridiculous the more outrageous Freudian slips and outright clangers on CVs have been revealed.

The CV clangers, studied by Corinne Mills, career management spokesperson for Monster, did not unsurprisingly result in any jobs for the applicants.

The mistakes included:
“As security guard my job is to pervert unauthorised people from coming onto the site.”

“My job involved processing clams.”

“I am a pubic relations officer.”

“My interests include cooking dogs and interesting people.”

“I was responsible for dissatisfied customers.”

“I relieved the conference manager”

“I am a prooficient typist.”

“I was responsible for fraudulent claims.”

This may have actually been an effort to tempt an employer: “While working in this role, I had intercourse with a variety of people.”

And lastly, probably the worst CV mistake of all is admitting a falling out with not just one, but several bosses: “Left last four jobs only because the managers were completely unreasonable.”

Corinne added: “These mistakes were all made by job seekers applying for professional, in some cases high-level positions. The moral of this story is that it doesn’t matter how well-qualified you are, badly written CVs mean closed doors.”

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