Businesses focus on employability skills
With employability looming as one of the major issues for 2021, a group of Oxfordshire business representatives have started working on how the next generation of employees can be better prepared for work.
Recruitment
The Future Of Work
The world of work is changing. Artificial intelligence, automation, remote working, and robotics will make this shift as significant as the mechanisation in prior generations of agriculture and mass manufacturing. While some jobs will be lost, and many others created, almost all will change.
You HR relaunch You HR Academy for remote working teams
You HR Consultancy is excited to announce they have relaunched their online You HR Academy specifically to support the management and development of remote working teams in small to medium-sized businesses without an in-house HR function.
Oxfordshire-based Apprentice picks up two Engineering Trust Awards
Two prestigious Engineering Trust training awards have been won by an apprentice at Oxfordshire-based Owen Mumford, a global industry leader in advanced medical device design and manufacturing.
Work Experience Best-Practice Guide
Work experience is a placement offered by an employer on their premises, during which school or college students carry out tasks more or less as an employee would. The placement can last for a week or longer, and includes an emphasis on the learning aspects of the experience.
Application for the Government’s Kickstart Scheme by the B4 community
Together with other B4 members including ELS, Oxford Duplication Centre, Studio 8 and NX, we have made an application for the Government’s Kickstart Scheme which provides funding for employers to provide six-month work placements for 16-24-year-olds that are currently claiming Universal Credit and at risk of long-term unemployment.
Apprenticeships Panel with Oxfordshire LEP
Apprenticeships Panel with Oxfordshire LEP with Shilpa Bhatt – OUH NHS Foundation Trust & David Martin – OAS & UKAEA.
Freeths solicitors expands its real estate team with new hires
Freeths is delighted to announce it has recruited two property lawyers into its highly regarded Oxfordshire commercial property team.
Engaging the Next Generation at BIO2020
At a time when the next generation is facing considerable uncertainty, B4, organisers of BIO2020, Oxfordshire’s largest B2B event, is delighted to announce that one hundred complimentary tickets for this year’s event, from 2nd to 4th June, will be made available to students and career leaders in Oxfordshire.
7.6m working age people in the UK have a disability
If you’re not actively recruiting talent your competitors probably are.
Talent Spotter: How to attract and retain Millennials in your workplace
We’ve all said it ‘‘doesn’t that policeman/solicitor/doctor look young’’. A sure sign that we’re all getting older. And the fact is, that we are getting older, and for every year that passes in our working lives, another wave of young, fresh, technologically advanced employees enters the workforce, bringing with them fresh ideas, new ways of working, and high levels of expectations.
Intellectual Property Office invests in new support role for Oxfordshire businesses
The Intellectual Property Office has partnered with Oxfordshire Local Enterprise Partnership to create new business support job role – application window now open
Development & Growth
Demand for innovative legal solutions from Freeths Solicitors has resulted in a record year of development and growth for this leading law firm.
Oxfordshire’s Apprentices, businesses and schools celebrate success at county awards
The third annual Oxfordshire Apprenticeship Awards took place on Thursday 4th April at Jurys Inn Oxford, where Apprentices, schools and employers were celebrated for their significant achievements.
Oxfordshire Voice Forum: Why is it so hard to recruit in...
Oxfordshire Voice Forum at Pembroke College, Oxford. Thursday 15th November 2018.