• JLR and DHL team up to create 300 jobs

    Around 300 jobs will be created at a new DHL logistics facility in Ellesmere Port, Cheshire, to support Jaguar Land Rover’s (JLR’s) Range Rover Evoque.

    The Evoque is produced at JLR’s Halewood, Merseyside plant, the other side of the Mersey estuary from Ellesmere Port. 
     
    Logistics provider DHL, which already works with JLR at Halewood where the Evoque is produced, will occupy a new purpose-built facility at Ellesmere Port on the other side of the Mersey estuary.

    Specifics on job roles and application processes will be released by DHL in the near future.
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  • Employment is gathering pace at London's new gateway superport, more than 36,000 jobs are expected to come from the development.

    THE £1.5billion London Gateway superport is on schedule to open next year.

    The transformation of the former Shell oil refinery site at Coryton into a giant port and warehouse distribution centre is progressing well, its owner says.

    Key contracts have been signed, employment is gathering pace, construction work is on target and awards are already being won, says Developer DP World.

    The global marine terminal owner and operator, aims to open the deep sea port’s first phase by the end of next year, with several companies already expressing an interest in moving to the adjoining logistics park.

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  • 70% of workers 'unaware' of auto enrolment pension plans

    About 10 million employees will be automatically put in a work place pension scheme in October, but the majority remain unclear about the process.

     

    Almost 70% of workers in Britain have little or no knowledge of the government's plan to automatically enrol people in their company pension scheme from 1 October 2012. The change to pensions legislation means millions of people who have so far not been saving for their retirement will begin putting money aside for the first time.

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  • Poundland opening Hertfordshire DC creating up to 250 jobs

    Poundland is opening a new 218,000 sq ft southern distribution centre in Hertfordshire.

    The distribution centre will create up to 250 jobs and will be used as a regional facility to service the stores in the South East of England. 

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  • £150m expansion bringing 200 jobs to the port of Southampton

    Southampton port has been given the go ahead for a £150m expansion bringing 200 jobs.

    After months of delays due to legal challenges and red tape a government agency has confirm the project to increase the size of berths at the container terminal can go-ahead.

    It will ensure the container terminal’s future competitiveness and safeguard 800 direct jobs and 1,200 indirect jobs.

    Port owner ABP wants to combine the existing berths 201 and 202 alongside an upgraded 500m quay wall.

    An increase in the length of container ships has meant the current deep-sea berths, 204 to 207, can no longer handle four of the next generation of container vessels at once.  

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  • Opportunities for young people with third wave of apprentices

    Schenker Limited, the UK arm of the global logistics services provider DB Schenker, has eight brand new opportunities for young people via its UK National Apprenticeship Programme to start a career within the logistics industry

    This will be the third year of the programme, which also received industry recognition in January when DB Schenker won the BIFA freight service award for Staff Development.

    The new group of eight will be based in a variety of locations up and down the UK and will undertake a 30 month long apprenticeship with the leading global logistics provider.

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  • Recruitment activity in the UK/European market

    The start of this year was certainly concerning with the looming sovereign debt crisis (especially in Europe), weak macro-economic figures and so on. This has led to a very cautious level of activity in the market. If we compare HR recruitment activity in the UK/European market in the second quarter of 2011 with the third quarter of the same year we saw a minor improvement of 1.6 %. With the increasing worry about Europe, activity dropped sharply by 29.7 % in the last quarter of 2011.

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  • National Express to hire 1,700 in the next 3 years including Route Managers

    Transport operator National Express West Midlands has signed an employment partnership with Jobcentre Plus as it announced it would hire 1,700 in the next three years.

    Of these, 125 jobs are new roles including additional route managers, and the rest of the posts, mostly for bus drivers, are due to attrition and retirement. 
     
    According to a spokesperson for the transport firm, it will work with Jobcentre Plus to “make sure we are as engaged with people from the point of [their] interest” in the job and ensure a “more open recruitment process”.
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  • Middle managers missing out on learning and development!

    Middle managers are missing out on essential learning and development (L&D) opportunities due to a lack of time, job pressures and financial constraints.

    New research from Ashridge Business School suggests that while the majority (73%) of middle managers work in an environment that claims to support L&D, only half (53%) have enough time to learn. A quarter (25%) of those surveyed see L&D as a luxury.

    Despite middle managers feeling that they don’t have time to pursue L&D opportunities, a significant number of respondents claim to need training in leadership (37%), people management (36%), strategy (21%) and influencing (20%).

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  • Staff availability for both permanent and temporary jobs continues to increase

    Staff availability for both permanent and temporary jobs continues to increase, but at a weaker pace that at any time in the several months, shows the Recruitment & Employment Confederation’s (REC’s) and KPMG’s Report on Jobs.
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