At Monster, we’re really happy to see that ads for unpaid internships are starting to become a thing of the past! Last week we pledged to remove ads for unpaid internships from our site and, as The Times newspaper reported last Friday, universities are following suit. We believe it’s important that employers don’t exploit job [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, April 24, 2013
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As you may be aware, there has recently been growing public awareness that unpaid internships are unlawful under minimum wage legislation. Despite this, many organisations are still exploiting graduates and young people for unpaid work. There is a considerable amount of UK media hype surrounding this issue and Hazel Blears has been pushing to make the [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, March 5, 2013
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As you may have seen on our social media channels or heard on the radio, we’re on a mission to find the nation’s best bits of career advice! We want to hear tips and tricks from all walks of life, whether someone’s fresh out of education or they’ve climbed several rungs of their career ladder. [...]
Continue reading...Friday, March 1, 2013
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We’re delighted that Monster will feature as one of the ‘Win the Ads’ in this week’s Ant & Dec’s Saturday night Takeaway! We’ll be offering one lucky studio audience contestant the opportunity to win a ‘professional makeover’ to help them Find Better in their career. This will include a new wardrobe, image consultation, and career [...]
Continue reading...Monday, February 11, 2013
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From today, we’re launching a multi-channel advertising campaign encouraging people to ‘Find Better’ in their working life and career. The new campaign, which marks Monster’s return to TV since our last appearance in 2008, tracks jobseekers throughout the day by placing a series of messages at strategic locations. It will run from 11 February to [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, January 30, 2013
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At Monster.co.uk we’re pleased to see that The Times newspaper have included us in a list of the top 50 websites you can’t live without. Our entry read: “For anyone in the market for a new job, this should be the first place to stop. One of the world’s biggest employment websites, it has extensive [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, January 15, 2013
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The Social, Mobile and Recruitment Technology (SMART) summit will take place on January 17th to showcase next gen Recruitment Technology solutions, including Social Recruiting platforms, Mobile Recruiting tools and more. HR Professionals will be there to see demos of the smartest recruitment platforms in the industry, including HR/Recruitment bloggers and press. At this unique event, you will [...]
Continue reading...Monday, January 14, 2013
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Julia Biggs is the founder of Interimity a HR and Recruiter community network on Linkedin and a regular contributor to the HR and Recruitment Buzz. Julia shared with us her thoughts on ‘why HR has the recruitment industry we deserve’ I have spent a long time as a recruitment agency client, a shorter time as a [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, December 19, 2012
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After lengthy deliberation a panel of industry experts from the graduate recruitment and social media sectors have decided the shortlist for the General Awards categories. The Social Media Graduate Recruitment Conference & Awards event is all about recognising excellence in the use of social media for graduate recruitment purposes and we were interested to see how [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, November 20, 2012
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The Social Media Graduate Recruitment Conference & Awards Ceremony is all about recognising excellence in the use of social media for graduate recruitment purposes. The Sector Awards are judged by the student community and the current student body clearly feels several organisations have excelled in their social media campaigns this year. At Monster, we’re sponsoring [...]
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