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Welcome to the Recruitment and Resourcing e-newsletter

Welcome to the November issue of Personnel Today�s recruitment and resourcing e-newsletter.

As we start to approach the end of the year the labour market still offers promise, despite a fairly bleak wider economic picture. Seasonal recruitment might help to maintain this positive momentum, and we hope this can continue into the New Year and beyond.

This month�s newsletter contains news and features on skills and apprenticeships among other topics, as well as features on some of the most significant recruitment drives we�ve seen recently.

On top of this we�ve got a selection of our blog posts and interviews, as well as technology discussions and opinion pieces. We also have our usual monthly selection of careers advice for those in HR, which this month includes an exclusive article by leading HR thinker, Dave Ulrich.

It�s a packed newsletter, and we�re sure you�ll find something here to interest you.

See you next month.

John Eccleston
Web Editor

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Recruitment news

• Skills key to future economic success, says Cable

• European Commission compromise on quotas with 40% objective for women on boards

• Positive employment outlook set to remain for rest of 2012

• Two-fifths of graduates underemployed

From the wires

• UK unemployment falls to 2.51 million, ONS says

• UK permanent jobs grow at fastest pace since May 2011

• Apprenticeships: reform needed for success, say MPs

• �Open the borders to skilled migrants�, Civil Service chief says

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Features

• Top 100 apprenticeship employers revealed
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• Winning formula: How F1�s Marussia source hard-to-find skills
In the glamorous, fast-paced world of Formula 1, it is hard to imagine any of the teams finding it hard to source skilled candidates�

• Top 10 private and public sector employers for gender and ethnicity
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Interviews / Opinion

• London 2012: A summer of success
The Olympics and Paralympics may be over, but the successes will be hard to forget. Jez Langhorn, vice-president of people at McDonald's, reflects on a summer of achievements in London�

• Legal opinion: Managing compliance with the Agency Workers Regulations
When the Agency Worker Regulations 2010 (AWR) were announced, there were concerns that their implementation would be met with a lack of compliance and countless tribunals�

• Extending flexible working rights could lead to more disputes
Proposals to extend flexible working rights to all workers could prove more trouble than they are worth for employers and their staff and could lead to more workplace disputes, according to Paula Whelan, an employment law partner at Shakespeares...

Technology

• The growth of video in recruitment
HR professionals and recruiters now use a selection of methods to assess candidates, from social media sites such as Twitter and LinkedIn to storing potential candidates' data in sophisticated applicant tracking systems�

• Why you should use video in your recruitment communications
Casual Films is a supporter of the 2013 RAD Awards, and the company is a keen advocate of using video in recruitment communications. Here, they tell us why it is so effective�

RAD Awards 2013

• A minute with the RADs supporters � Mark MacAlesher, head of trading, Metro (London)

From the blogs:

Hire Escape

• Should employers be more responsible for skills?

• Is Facebook�s job board about to launch?

Guru

• Horses talk business

• People Management power tweeters live in a man�s world

Your HR career

• What�s next for HR? The six competencies HR needs for today�s challenges
Leading HR thinker Dave Ulrich explains the six competencies HR must develop to tackle the challenges of the worldwide economic crisis, globalisation, technological innovations and other changes�

• CIPD chief executive sets out �broader purpose� for HR
Peter Cheese, chief executive of the CIPD, opened the organisation's annual conference by setting out his ambitions for the institute and the wider HR profession, and pledged to make the CIPD more inclusive for organisations of all sizes�

• Making a success of succession
There has been much recent media scrutiny into the departure of high-profile executives - from Barclays chief Bob Diamond to BBC Newsnight chief Peter Rippon�

• HR on the other side of the world
With many businesses in Australia crying out for talent, could it prove a potential relocation target?

Whatmedia

• November 2012 economic report for recruiters by Bryan Finn

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