Archive for December, 2009

Paula Reed MD of Alpha Executive Jobs Ltd, the international jobsite for executives, managers and professionals, said in Loughborough recently. ‘We’re not having it as tough as the USA because it’s said there are six job seekers competing for every vacancy in the US and redundancies have not slowed to the same degree as they have here. If this is true then we’re certainly better off here in the UK. Yes, these are tough times, but the increases we’ve been seeing in new redundancy figures, have been dropping for the last three months and that is good news.’

‘Because of tight credit, said Ms Reed, small businesses are naturally reluctant to hire new employees and as you would expect, their emphasis has been on pushing existing employees to produce more. Fortunately, many of these companies recognise that not only must they maintain or increase market share, they must also start exploring new markets if they’re going to stay in business.’

Ms Reed continued, ‘Internet marketing is an example, Internet sales have increased year-on-year and although some retail jobs may have been lost, I believe this is a result of progress and not the recession. If high street jobs have been lost, many have been replaced with new jobs created by this new marketing medium.’

Reed went on ‘one of the bastions of safe employment has been Human Resources, the onslaught of regulation imposed on the UK by the European Commission has made a lot of HR professionals indispensable. This is good news for them of course although hiring in the HR sector has been frozen for the last couple of years. However, there are now signs that HR vacancies are being advertised and this in itself is a good indication that brighter times are ahead for other job seekers.’

‘The demand for IT and sales professionals is growing again and Alpha Executive Jobs just like other specialist job boards, is also seeing an increase in the number of new management jobs being advertised. This is a good indicator of future hiring programmes and the steady rise in interim management contracts, is another positive indicator. If we look hard enough, there are a lot of signs that there are brighter days ahead.’ Said Ms Reed.

Source:   Alpha Executive Jobs Ltd

A new job site called Care Home Jobs is to be launched in January 2010. It’s been live in beta version for just over a month. And yet it already has a few thousand jobs for carers, managers and registered nurses in care homes across the UK. Plus, it already boasts some household brand names advertising their nursing positions.

Co-founder and director, Matt Farrah, is unequivocal about the reason why the site’s got off to such a flying start:

The demand for registered nurses and nursing managers in care homes is substantial. How we correctly staff the institutions that offer care over the coming years is a serious subject.

I think we’ve enjoyed such amazing early success because we’re the first jobs board to take the industry seriously.

It’s difficult to quantify the exact size of the care home industry. There are many thousands of elderly care homes. But it’s a complex field covering care home, nursing home, domiciliary and residential care organisations. And it’s not all about elderly dementia patients either.

Matt believes the care industry is going to be one of the most important job sectors of the next decade:

Care, whether it’s learning disability care or care of the elderly, is a critical issue for everyone. We’ve a massive population which is relatively wealthy, increasingly more able to pay for care and proportionately getting older. We expect care and demand quality care when we get it. It’s why it makes headline news every week.

As one of the directors also behind the jobs board Nurses.co.uk [ http://www.nurses.co.uk ], we asked Matt why he wanted to branch out into another niche within the nursing industry?

They are two very different sites. Care homes is not a sector within acute nursing. A critical care nurse does not have the skills to work with dementia patients, or vice versa.

As a director who attends nursing events, Matt believes specialist job boards should play a crucial role within the industry they serve.“I attend industry events as often as I can. I think it’s important. I meet student nurses at career fairs and talk to hiring managers. Those conversations teach me a lot.

What fascinates me is the recruitment of experts – bringing the right people to the right jobs as efficiently as possible. I think it’s because we try to understand the job seeker and put their skills first that we’ve enjoyed so much early success.

Source:  Care Home Jobs