Latest News - Human Resources - United Kingdom

Jobsgopublic goes from strength to strength as the latest figures from an independent audit of web traffic for September 2007 recorded the biggest leap yet in unique visitor numbers now attracting over 400,000 unique visitors a month.

Million Impossible PLC who own the UK’s most exciting new Entrepreneur Opportunity web site www.millionimpossible.com announced that intend to create up to 80 new jobs in Essex.

Learning Light, a non-profit organisation focusing on people development programmes to meet business goals, has created the UK’s first Virtual Enterprise Network (VEN) - a consortium of companies to sell learning-related products and services.

Xenios Thrasyvoulou, CEO of the innovative London-based online skills marketplace, PeoplePerHour.com predicts small businesses and freelancers will need smarter ways to generate income or handle work in 2008.

At this year’s Learning Technologies exhibition, Giunti Labs is unveiling the initial results of its continuing collaboration on location based mobile learning with world-leading technology companies Cisco and Ericsson.

Cobent - the ‘compliance’ software vendor, specialising in the manufacturing and life sciences sectors – is helping Aberdeen City Council make training and development easier for the Council’s 12,500 full and part-time staff.

HR research consultants Quantify have launched two off-the-shelf 360 degree Feedback systems on the web.

Cobent - the ‘compliance’ software vendor – has categorically denied persistent rumours that the company will ‘float’ on the stock market following the publication of its results for 2007.

Assembling complementary qualities in the boardroom can be the key to turning a group of outstanding individuals into an effective boardroom team

Erik Smith has become Senior VP of Sales, US, for Cobent - the ‘compliance’ software vendor, specialising in the manufacturing and life sciences sectors.

The global learning provider, Tata Interactive Systems (TIS) (www.tatainteractive.com), has scored a ‘business hat trick’ in winning its three largest orders in quick succession.

‘No frills, just outstanding, world-renowned expertise’ is the theme of the Tata Interactive Systems (TIS) stand at the Learning Technologies 2008 exhibition, being held at London’s Olympia on 30th and 31st January 2008.

A wide range of business risks can be avoided, compliance costs reduced and performance increased by adopting a new generation of support tools.

A game, developed for ICICI Bank in India by the global learning provider, Tata Interactive Systems (TIS), has been shortlisted for an IITT award in the ‘E-learning Project of the Year’ category.

Graduate launches GradGathering.com - a new online networking site designed to connect students and graduates, both employed and unemployed, together. Build a network of contacts to find your next job.

New alliance between online recruitment services provider Optimal Internet and lead generation service company Prospectvision

Red Commerce, Europe's leading SAP human resource provider, has unvieiled it's new corporate identity reflecting it's rapid rise from small business to Pan-European leaders in resourcing solutions for the entire SAP life lifecycle.

A completely new training workshop designed around Dr Edward de Bono’s proven creativity and innovation tools. Generate new ideas, pick the best and decide which to implement.

Trainer1 – one of the UK’s leading independent e-learning specialists and Britain’s premier Lectora distributor – is among the first in the UK to offer customers Lectora 2008, the latest version of the Lectora authoring tool from Trivantis.

Cobent has published a Whitepaper which examines the increasing regulatory requirements placed upon HR/Training directors and suggests a best practice method of providing tamper-proof training records.

Trainer1’s Neil Lasher has been appointed deputy chair of The eLearning Network (eLN), the UK's foremost professional association of users and developers of all forms of e-learning.

Free ebook from Webooks offers information and advice to those planning to move to the USA. Users can access the full text of “Immigration Guide to the USA”, a step-by-step guide to United States Immigration Law, visas, and employment.

Organisations need to move on from traditional approaches to training and development. Building learning and critical success factors into support tools can quickly boost workgroup productivity. Returns of over 30 times the cost can be obtained.

Students to synchronise their real-life locations in a virtual campus with Cisco and Giunti Labs’ Technology.

As recruitment of key employees becomes ever more crucial in the race to both survive and thrive in an increasingly globally competitive commercial world, Strategic Human Resources Consultancy, Red Talent continues to expand its HR solutions.

Specialist provider to develop easy-to-use online toolkit.

The new CSA Associate office will be located in Sofia, Bulgaria and will offer its extensive portfolio of celebrity speakers and experts.

Crystal Power, one of the top direct sales and marketing organisations in the UK has just launched a new charity sales project working on behalf of national charities across the UK.

New tools can enable companies to prepare for outsourcing by making it easy for average people anywhere to difficult jobs in a winning way

Learning content management solutions (LCMS) vendor, Giunti Labs, is collaborating globally with the world-leading technology companies Cisco and Ericsson, on Location Based Mobile Learning.

Workplace Law yesterday celebrated its 12th birthday. Established in 1995, it is one of the fastest growing networks in the country, specialising in employment law, health and safety and premises management.

Webooks releases ebook offering free information to those involved in business with Japan. "Behind the Japanese Mask" is a relevant and interesting introduction to Japanese business practices and their cultural roots.

The management simulation ‘TOPSIM’ not only proved popular at the Tata Interactive Learning Forums, held recently in Chicago and Boston, in the USA, but also demonstrated a way of making corporate learning both effective and efficient.

Non-profit organisation Learning Light has become the media partner for a senior executive summit - ‘The Learning Organisation’, organised by the European Networking Group (ENG).

The Tata Interactive Learning Forums (TLFs), held recently in Chicago and Boston, in the USA, debated key issues in learning and learning technologies in the corporate and academic worlds.

National Stress Awareness Day on the 7th Nov is an important day for employers & employees.Days are shorter, many people become stressed in the winter. Organisations must ensure that work is a positive experience as business target need to be met

The official opening of the Six Thinking Hats® Room, sponsored by The Holst Group, at the Royal Mail’s Innovation Lab (iLab).

Giunti Labs has developed and implemented a number of e-learning materials having been assigned responsibility for ‘component 4’ of the EU’s Mediterranean European Development Action - Education and Training for Employment (MEDA-ETE) Project.

Leading job board web site, exposurejobs.com is now offering a free two month trial to employers and recruiters searching the best candidates across Europe.

BMJ Group, one of the world’s leading providers of medical information for doctors, researchers, health care professionals and patients, has asked independent research consultants, Quantify, to conduct an Employee Satisfaction survey on its behalf.

Commercial organisations operating at the forefront of their industry will have another weapon to add to their recruitment and retention arsenal next week when strategic human resources company, Red Talent launches its new web site.

Analysis and planning consultancy to facilitate the development of e-recruitment strategies that meet legislative and efficiency agenda demands.

Lingua-Jobs is proud to announce the official launch of Lingua-Jobs.com, an exciting new job portal dedicated to the entire spectrum of multilingual and bilingual job vacancies on a global level.

Job seekers throughout the UK and Spain will be able to search the best jobs in Europe from next month as exposurejobs.com goes live.

Amnesty International has adopted Inner Physique's Complete Wellbeing Programme as their strategic initiative to manage and reduce stress and enhance employee wellbeing.

Cobent has updated two of the modules in its Learning Compliance Suite (LCS), which is designed to make enterprise wide learning easier to manage and control.

Cobent, a leading provider of solutions for e-learning, training and compliance-led process management, has expanded its team with the addition of four senior appointments.

Echelon Learning has launched an innovative human resources initiative on behalf of London & Continental Railways.

Entrepreneurs typically have little interest in having boards of directors in their companies, and believe Non-Executive Directors (NEDs) would simply put constraints on them running their businesses according to new survey findings.

Delegates from over twenty countries learn how new support tools can enable people to understand complex issues and do difficult jobs