Much of our working life today is thanks to the Victorians: the way we light our offices (the electric light bulb was patented in 1879), how we get to work (the pedal-driven bicycle was invented in 1838), being able to …
What’s the biggest challenge facing employers today? Is it survival? Growth? Technology? Recruiting skilled staff? The answer, of course, depends on who you ask. To state the obvious, the challenges faced by a drilling firm in Aberdeen are vastly different …
Looking for a thought-provoking stat about employment and skills, but only got a minute? You've come to the right place! Skill under-utilisation occurs when employees have skills above and beyond those their job requires. The opposite of skills gaps, which …
Welcome to our weekly One Minute Monday blog, where we outline a statistic or fact from our research in under 60 seconds! Our Employer Skills Survey 2015 found that the number of job vacancies that are hard to fill due …
Got a spare minute? Interested in employment and skills? Our One Minute Mondays are the blog posts for you! Many of the skills missing from UK employees are people and personal skills. When we asked employers who said their employees …
As part of our series of explainer blogs, we’re putting a spotlight on some of the specific terms and phrases from our UK Employer Skills Survey 2015. It’s a huge study, speaking to over 91,000 employers across the UK – …
Welcome to our One Minute Monday weekly blog where we outline a key finding from our research in under one minute! The majority (63%) of UK workers received training in 2015. The number of employers offering training and the amount …
As part of our series of explainer blogs, we’re putting a spotlight on some of the specific terms and phrases from our UK Employer Skills Survey 2015. It’s a huge study, speaking to over 91,000 employers across the UK – …
As part of our series of explainer blogs, we’re putting a spotlight on some of the specific terms and phrases from our UK Employer Skills Survey 2015. It’s a huge study, speaking to over 91,000 employers across the UK – …
This is our weekly One Minute Monday - our guide to a single fact or stat on employment and skills that you can take in in sixty seconds or less. Our One Minute Monday posts are drawn from our own research …
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