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Guide improves recruitment for visibly different candidates

Date:: 23 September 2019

Changing Faces has launched a guide to help employers provide a positive recruitment process for people with a visible difference such as a mark or scar.

International graduates offered two-year work visa

Date:: 11 September 2019

International graduates will be able to stay in the UK for two years to find work under a new immigration route that reverses the "hostile environment" that Theresa May introduced as home secretary in 2012.

Hiring declines at fastest rate for three years

Date:: 9 September 2019

Political and economic uncertainty continues to affect the labour market as data from the Recruitment & Employment Confederation and KPMG showed that permanent placements fell at the quickest rate for more than three years.

Drop in EU migrants prompts urgent call for immigration transition period

Date:: 22 August 2019

The number of EU citizens moving to the UK to work has continued to fall, prompting business bodies to reiterate their calls for a transition period ahead of any new immigration system so employers can access the labour they need.

Future skills framework to be developed

Date:: 15 August 2019

A framework for "essential" skills - such as teamwork, presenting and problem-solving - will be developed by a new task force to help inform employers' future hiring criteria and plans for progression.

Post-Brexit regional salary thresholds for migrants to be considered

Date:: 26 June 2019

The Migration Advisory Committee is to consider how salary thresholds should be calculated under a future immigration system - including whether there is a case for regional salary thresholds to be set.

More firms commit to employing ex-offenders

Date:: 29 May 2019

An additional 230 organisations - including Greene King and Pret A Manger - have committed to hiring ex-offenders, as the government allows more prisoners to take temporary release to participate in work placements.

New flexibility in immigration rules allays skills gap fears

Date:: 3 April 2019

Given the current Brexit crisis there are few certainties about future immigration rules, but for Claire Nilson and Hodon Buraleh there are encouraging signs in Philip Hammond's Spring Statement for those concerned about the growing skills gap.

Intuition 'very important' in recruitment for nine in 10 leaders

Date:: 14 March 2019

Ninety-six per cent of business leaders say intuition is a "very important" skill in hiring and promoting staff, with a report suggesting it could be used to improve the diversity of shortlists.

Government extends group of occupations exempt from £30,000 visa threshold

Date:: 11 March 2019

The government has announced an extension to the number of professions that will be exempt from the proposed £30,000 minimum salary threshold on workers requiring a Tier 2 visa.

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