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Salary survey highlights skills shortages

Recruitment and HR company, Kelly Services has launched its third annual salary survey. According to the company, whilst pay increased generally in 2004, the figures reveal that there is a growing gap between bottom and top end rates.

Kelly Services say that, as UK business confidence continues to rise, skills shortages are being created and as a result employers are providing greater rewards for staff with better than average skills and experience.

Kelly Services expect this trend to continue into 2005 as the pool of available skilled staff will remain limited due to low unemployment and an ageing population.

A copy of the research in .PDF format can be downloaded from:
http://www.kellyservices.co.uk

New appointments at TATA Interactive Systems

TATA Interactive Systems (TIS) has made a number of new appointments to its UK-based workforce.

Anubhuti Kashyap has joined TIS as programme manager with responsibility for its clients in the education sector. Ilango Nadar has taken up the newly created post of TIS's business support manager. Nick Hogg joins as an instructional design specialist and Angus Turpin is joining TIS's channel sales team.

"TIS has ambitious plans to grow its turnover and customer base in the escalating marketplace for e-learning materials and related services," said Sambit Mohapatra, head of TIS in the UK and Europe. "We expect to continue to grow, both in terms of business and employee numbers throughout 2005. We can provide, on request, detailed job descriptions for the new career opportunities with TIS. Anyone who is interested in these vacancies should send their CV to us at TIS, with a note of their current salary and employment details."

Management and leadership development project awarded

Asset Skills Wales - the Sector Skills Council for property services, housing, cleaning, and facilities management - has been awarded a contract to develop a management and leadership development strategy for its sector in Wales.

The project, awarded by the Wales Skills Development Fund, is being undertaken in conjunction with the primary professional bodies in the sector as well as the Wales Management Council. The steering group is chaired by Eddie Ratcliffe of OCS Ltd.

The research will take the form of questionnaires, interviews and focus groups and will be carried out during January and February 2005. The questionnaire is now available from the Asset Skills Wales website in both English and Welsh, together with a background paper. In addition, details of consultation workshops are provided.

The research is due to be completed by 4 March 2005. The strategy and implementation plan will be launched at an event in April 2005.

The consultation material for the Wales management and leadership project is now live on the Asset Skills website.

Similar projects are currently being developed throughout the UK. If you would like more details about Management and Leadership projects in your area, contact David Bell of Asset Skills on 01604 233 336, or e-mail dbell@assetskills.org

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