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Welsh Recruitment

Recruitment News

Up-to-the-minute employment and recruitment news throughout South Wales.


Key Facts

1 in 10 – workers in the UK have had sex with their boss (Monster)

70% - of your waking day is spent at work

20 seconds – is the amount of time that a prospective employer will spend looking at your CV

26 house – is the amount of time that British university students spend studying each week, making UK students the least hard-working in Europe.
Portugal is number one
(Higher Education Policy Institute think-tank, September)

40% - of sexual harassment claims are made by men (Equal Opportunities Commission)

1 in 5 – office workers are unhappy in their current job with 20 per cent of UK workers actively looking for a job whilst employed in their current role (YouGov’s Happiness at Work Index)


Rhondda celebrates 250 new jobs

One of the world’s leading mobile phone recycling organisations has announced its intention to build the biggest centre of its kind in Treforest and the creation Hong Kong-based Excel will recycle and refurbish 100,000 disused handsets that will be resold in the far East.
Councilor Robert Bevan, Cabinet Member for Economic Development and Skills, said :“This is tremendous news not only for Treforest but or he whole of Rhondda Cynon Taf. The fact that RC has attracted such a leading international player as Excel speaks volumes about the way in which we are increasingly be coming a popular and viable place to do business “When the Council met with the company, we were impressed with their vision and ideas and are pleased that they have chosen this vacant site for their operations, which will now be regenerated and put to positive and productive use Excel will provide important jobs for our communities and already has plans to expand upon its 100,000 per month output target in 2008.
The potential for this market is vast – in the UK over a 100 million discarded mobile telephones lie dormant in people’s drawers and cupboards or are simply thrown away as people take up new contracts and acquire new handsets. In an era of much greater concentration on sustainability this is an innovative and pioneering project in UK terms.’’


60 per cent of Welsh workers plan to change career

Almost 6 out of 10 workers in Wales are planning to change their careers in the near future, according to a new poll by online careers website Monster.co.uk.
The poll asked the question, ‘Have you ever considered a complete career change?’
57 per cent of respondents said that Yes, they were already planning to retrain. But only 4 per cent of people said that they loved their chosen career and had no plans to change it.

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