IT

It is fair to say that 2009 was a tough year for IT departments, with budget cuts leading to recruitment freezes and leaving small, under-funded teams to struggle on as best they could.  However, new research suggests that...
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HR

After a stressful 2009, HR professionals were keeping their fingers crossed for a calmer 2010. However, the recent extreme weather conditions ensured that the first weeks back in the office after Christmas were as busy as ever. But this could just be a sign of things to come...
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Marketing

There is no denying that marketing departments have been victims of the ongoing economic crisis, with firms concentrating on surviving rather than battling it out for new business. However, the new year could herald...
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Accountancy

People working in accountancy jobs and within the financial services sector are waiting with baited breath for January 26th to see if official data will show the UK left recession in the final three months of January...
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IT departments, like most areas of business, have suffered over the past 18 months, however it seems that 2010 will be the sector's year, with the majority of professionals (72 per cent) agreeing that IT has played an increasingly important role in business operations since the onset of the recession...
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As a year characterised by job losses and pay freezes nears its end, HR professionals could be forgiven for heaving a sigh of relief that 2009 is almost over and done with. However, it seems that 2010 is likely to be just as hectic for HR departments, as firms look to...
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Marketing professionals must have thought Christmas had come early when they saw the latest Trends Survey from the Chartered Institute of Marketing (CIM). After months of budget cuts, the survey shows that the majority think the worst of the economic doom and gloom is behind them...
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While here in the UK we are still desperately trying to predict when the doom and gloom of the recession will come to an end, December brought the news that not only has the rest of the European Union (EU) entered a period of economic growth, but...
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Business confidence can be a funny thing. It can take months or even years to build up and then vanish in the time it takes for a queue to form outside a Northern Rock branch. Plans which have been carefully considered are...
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From the gender pay gap to worries about the Christmas party, HR workers must feel they have enough on their plates at the best of times. While a recession would not be on anyone's business wish list, those who have to pick up the pieces of day-to-day business...
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The economic downturn has provided a backdrop for many unexpected events over recent months. Bank collapses, stock market crashes and the humbling of some well-known high street names have all taught people to take nothing for granted...
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Accountancy is by its very nature a resilient sector. Although the City of London was hit hard by the credit crunch and the recession that followed, firms and employees alike have proven flexible enough to reinvent themselves in order...
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It is cold comfort now, but it appears that the IT sector was on the verge of a boom before the financial crisis struck. According to Forrester, it was only the recession that put paid to what would have been...
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The HR battle lines have been drawn for some time. The recession has brought with it unfamiliar challenges in unprecedented quantities. Pay cuts, redundancies and fears about unfair dismissal are just a few of the problems people in HR jobs have had to deal with in recent months...
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Sometimes what looks like the obvious option turns out not to make sense. For example, the uninitiated might think that because consumer spending falls during a recession, a downturn is the perfect time to slash marketing outlay in order to...
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They will hardly need reminding of it, but anyone looking for an accountancy job in recent months will have had to dig hard to find good news. Now, after two years of austerity, it seems that...
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'Combating climate change' and 'going green' are phrases that everyone hears on a regular basis at the moment, however employees within the IT sector may be set to hear them more often than most as experts suggest those...
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There is no doubt that the past year has been a trying one for people in HR jobs, with the economic downturn bringing with it redundancies, pay-freezes and reduced working hours and then the swine flu epidemic demanding contingency plans and ...
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Firms which have not kept up marketing efforts in the recession are likely to face challenges in the coming months.  As UK businesses look towards a possible end to the recession at the turn of the year, there will be a firm division between those ...
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Recent weeks have seen endless speculation about when the end of the UK recession will come, with job hunters, perhaps unsurprisingly given the fragile state of the economy, receiving mixed messages. Chancellor Alistair Darling has stated that...
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IT recruitment managers might be forgiven for having a few sleepless nights of late. Theirs is a fast-moving sector as it is and there is little doubt the recession would have given them, and others working in the field, a great deal to worry about. Now though, it seems that there is...
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It might not be a sentiment that will go down well with all workers, but perhaps people should spare a thought for their firms' HR staff during what are no doubt stressful times. The longer the recession rolls on the more unpleasant tasks they face...
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It might not feel like it for everyone, but it appears the economic gloom is slowly lifting. The number of businesses becoming insolvent has levelled off, the FTSE 100 share index has experienced something of a lift in recent weeks and Ashdown Group client BDO Stoy Hayward even suggested...
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At first glance the letters V, U W, L and a saxophone might seem to have little in common. Certainly the last member of the group seems to stick out like a sore thumb. However, the thing that binds them all together is an issue that should be of interest to businesses and job hunters alike...
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There can be little doubt the UK jobs market is in turmoil at the moment, official figures show that unemployment hit 2.26 million earlier this year, the highest level since the end of 1996. But does this headline figure paint a true picture? Well, no one would argue that the country is not...
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The opening lines of the Rudyard Kipling poem 'If...' might not be etched on the wall of every HR professional across the country right now, but it is likely that those famous words have a particular resonance with such workers during times of economic strife. Figures released by a...
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New phrases seem to enter the English language on a daily basis now. Some fizzle out never to be heard again, while others resonate with people and become part of their lives. Around two years ago the term 'credit crunch' was coined and it quickly became clear that it would fall...
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The credit crunch meant that the UK's financial services sector was at ground zero when the current recession hit the country. Perhaps not since Black Wednesday had monetary matters made the front pages in such a...
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