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British workers need a major injection of skills to beat migrant workers to London jobs, according to leading commentators, reports Personnel Today.
Research by the CBI and KPMG has found that two-thirds of companies expect skills shortages to be the biggest obstacle to growth in the first half of 2007. Half of those surveyed currently use people from other EU countries to plug skills gaps.
"Once, we went on package holidays and listened to radio stations. Now we travel independently and download music on to our iPods. And we wondered what sort of finance company that would be"
Richard Duvall From NewBusiness Winter 2006
It turned out to be Zopa, the brainchild of the late Richard Duvall, who recently passed away in November. Richard brought us Egg in the nineties, arguably the bank that revolutionised banking in the UK and Zopa is the next step in the revolution.
When you think about creativity and finance, the two don't tend to mix. What they have created is a revolution however, matching independent lenders and borrowers and cutting out the banks. Both parties benefit from the savings in interest rates.
Richard was a creative thinker in an industry that isn't renowned for it. His legacy - his innovative thinking.
Money is not the most important factor in choosing a job, according to two surveys published this week, and as reported by Personnel Today.
Companies where promotion of talent is part of the organisation's culture outperform those where it is not by 67%, a report by Jackson Samuel suggests.
The report, was the result of discussions with 58 HR Directors of some of the UK's top companies.
Ref. Personnel Today
The amount of women in managerial jobs has grown by almost one-third (30%) in the past 10 years, compared to 15% in professional roles, according to a recent report by The Work Foundation.
There has also been a significant increase in 'associate professional' roles (such as nurses and computer technicians) for both men and women. The number of women in associate professional jobs has more than doubled, growing by 57%, in the last decade, compared with 17% for men.
Source: Personnel Today
We are pleased to announce that Captain David Kistruck, General Manager of Flying at Virgin Atlantic Airways, will be speaking at Talk Leadership 07.
The Programme for the event is taking shape and we are currently talking to our last high profile industry speaker to complete the line up.
We have already started taking bookings online for this event. If you would like to ensure a place, please book online.
Hi Everybody,
Thank you for attending talkcreative 06 and for taking the time to visit our event blog.
This blog has been set up to gather your thoughts and comments on the day itself and also to offer you the chance to share some stories and any outcomes you have achieved now you are back in your organisations.
We will be shortly posting photographs of the day.
Finally, I must of course thank Chris Pullen at Watson Wyatt for his sponsorship and support.
All of your thoughts will be gratefully received and I look forward to speaking with you in the near future.
All the best,
Richard
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