All Careers articles – Page 79
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Capita Symonds appoints new eco consultant
Consultant hires expert for Aquatic Resource Management sector
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Axe hangs over 200 staff at Bovis Lend Lease
Drop in commercial work threatens staff numbers as credit crunch bites
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Wolseley cuts 3,000 more US jobs
Materials firm's job losses since 2006 market peak now total 10,600
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Director behind T5 leaves BAA for Balfour Beatty
Capital projects director Andrew Wolstenholme to head Balfour Beatty's professional and technical services division
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Bank of England warns recession is imminent
Governor predicts several years of economic hardship for the UK
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Construction in Poland hit by global recession
Decline in foreign investment has resulted in construciton projects being shelved
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Northamptonshire contractor goes into administration
Mainland Construction Group calls in administrators and tries to sell plant arm while closing construction and civil engineering divisions
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Recruitment firms accused of price fixing
OFT accuses recruitment companies of breaching competition law in supply of candidates to construction firms
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Hotel giant Jumeirah unfazed by credit crunch
Dubai-based developer's confidence in global expansion plans is undented
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Women under-represented in construction, reveals guide
Female employees can make up as little as 10% of total staff and are unlikely to gain equity
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Treat your staff with honesty and humanity
Thousands of people have been made redundant in the past few months and more will probably follow. How should a good employer handle this painful process? Josephine Smit found out
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Diploma uptake half that expected
Just half of the original 3,000 students who were expected to sign up for the construction and built environment diploma are actually on the course, it was revealed this week.
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We want to make a complaint – ConstructionSkills’ Mark Farrar interview
It seems that the industry is deeply unhappy with ConstructionSkills. Roxane McMeeken tells its new boss why – and asks him what he’s doing about it. Photographs by Tom Harford Thompson
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Brave new world
Many companies are mounting expeditions abroad to escape the UK downturn, but with global expansion comes a whole set of interesting problems.
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Go for the burn: Bouygues UK’s daily workout
Warming up before work used to mean eating your bacon buttie while it was still hot. But now, in an effort to cut down site injuries, Bouygues UK has stepped things up a gear.
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QS firms to axe hundreds of staff in bid to save cash
UK’s biggest quantity surveyors plan to cut staff as drop in private sector work causes fees to plunge
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Workers name the industry’s 75 best employers
Survey of 30,000 staff shows which firms offer the most benefits and the best company culture
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Ex-architects turn eco-fashion designers
Cambridge students establish DePLOY sustainable fashion line and boutique
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Commercial property slumps in Japan
IPD index shows returns to end June are just 8.4%, with capital growth at only 3.3%
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FMB survery shows fall in construction workload
All sectors of building industry are suffering, but private sector housing is hardest hit