Popular culture has it that today’s teens are feckless, work-shy layabouts, happier to play Candy Crush than to put in a solid day’s work. That’s absolutely not a view I subscribe to. Here at Nestlé UK, we employ over 500 …
...into better products and services. This brings competitive advantage and allows businesses to grow and move up the value chain, creating more and better jobs and progression opportunities. Globalisation, technology...
Retail and hospitality represent two of the largest sectors in the UK economy, employing 5.7 million people across the UK. That’s one in five of all jobs. Yet low pay and high staff turnover continue to be the hall marks …
Youth unemployment is falling – but it is falling more slowly than adult unemployment. And getting a foot on the first rung of the career ladder is still harder to achieve than it was twenty years ago. This is an …
It is a common refrain from employers’ groups that their members are unable to find young employees with the right experience as well as the right skills. Dig a little deeper, and those headlines about feckless youth are often unfounded. …
...Leitch Review of Skills' league tables of qualification stocks. The aim was to move our position up the league tables. It was believed that this would automatically deliver productivity gains,...
Helen Lamb is Executive Director, Managed Infrastructure Services, Fujitsu UK & Ireland. Do technology roles have an image problem? Figures out today show that only a quarter of people working in the sector are women – which would indicate that it …
...employers are best placed to find the practical answers to start to remove barriers, challenge fixed ideas of what a job is and how it should be done, and increase...
...occupations in IT and construction; too few women make it to managerial and leadership positions; too many women get stuck in low paid, poorly valued part time jobs because they...
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