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		<title>Engineering Employment Sector Focus: Mining Industry</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#160; The mining industry has come a long way in recent years, leaving far behind images of pit ponies and gas-detecting canaries. Modern mining is highly automated, employs lean principles, highly professional, makes full use of computer-aided technologies and very much focussed on health, safety and socially responsible and economical business. Mining is the extraction [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Impact of AWR for Engineering, Technical, Industrial &amp; Construction Temporary Workers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Agency Workers Regulations (AWR) will be implemented in the UK on 1st Ocotober 2011. The purpose of the regulations is to provide temporary workers with equal treatment in terms of basic working and employment conditions as if they had been employed directly to do the same job. The rights will apply after a 12 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>September 2011, Good Time to Seek and Find Purple Squirrels  for Engineering, Technical and Industrial Jobs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here at Purple Squirrel we are always being asked the current state of the current market for Engineering, Industrial and Technical hiring. Refreshed from the holidays and looking now at September and beyond to Q1 2012, I have to comment that the mood is overall fairly upbeat. Demand for UK employment remained steady in August, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Purple Squirrel Awarded Major Supply Contract for Expat Engineers for UK Industrial, Construction and Energy Sector</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Purple Squirrel is today pleased to announce, that we have been awarded a major supply contract to promote UK Engineers for Saudi Arabia Expat contracts. This is exciting news for Job seekers in the UK Industrial, Construction and Energy sectors  looking for long-term, good quality contracts abroad.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.purple-squirrel.co.uk/blog/news/purple-squirrel-awarded-major-supply-contract-for-expat-engineers-for-uk-industrial-construction-and-energy-sector-engineers/</link>
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		<title>CV Writing Help: Become a Purple Squirrel and make your CV stand out from the crowd!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Deep down inside you know that you are a Purple Squirrel candidate, the elusive one that Company X is just waiting to hear about. Your dream job is just around the corner and the company yacht in the Cayman Islands beckons&#8230;. We could all use a little inspiration to make our CV stand out from [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.purple-squirrel.co.uk/blog/news/cv-writing-help-become-a-purple-squirrel-and-make-your-cv-stand-out-from-the-crowd/</link>
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		<title>Purple Squirrel Engineering Recruitment joins the Web2.0 revolution on Twitter and Facebook</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Find your next Job on Twitter! It’s true! Social Networking is catching on and latest figures suggest there are 510,000 Tweets daily. Not everyone wants to share latest tabloid gossip, there are plenty of others using Twitter and Facebook to find their next job. We are therefore excited to announce that all jobs posted to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.purple-squirrel.co.uk/blog/news/purple-squirrel-engineering-recruitment-joins-the-web2-0-revolution-on-twitter-and-facebook/</link>
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		<title>Latest UK Unemployment Figures April 2011</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Figures released today from the Office for National Statistics show the unemployment rate for the three months to February 2011 was 7.8 per cent of the economically active population, down 0.1 on the quarter. The total number of unemployed people fell by 17,000 over the quarter to reach 2.48 million. Whilst this does not herald [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.purple-squirrel.co.uk/blog/news/latest-uk-unemployment-figures-april-2011/</link>
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		<title>Engineering Labour Market Re-energised After Holiday Weekends</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Purple Squirrel sees four fold increase in active engineering and technical job hunters in early May due to Holidays]]></description>
		<link>http://www.purple-squirrel.co.uk/blog/news/engineering-labour-market-re-engergised-after-holiday-weekends/</link>
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		<title>Advantages of outsourcing your company’s recruitment process</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Companies that outsource their recruitment process, experience a handful of advantages which I&#8217;ll discuss in detail in this article. The term for this process is Recruitment Process Outsourcing which in turn is a type of business process outsourcing. Before I dig any deeper into the advantages of outsourcing your company&#8217;s recruitment process, let&#8217;s get a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.purple-squirrel.co.uk/blog/recruitment/advantages-of-outsourcing-your-company%e2%80%99s-recruitment-process/</link>
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		<title>Out of University and Onto the Career Ladder</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Advice for Engineering Graduates Facing the Challenges of Recession and Lack of Demand for Graduate Recruitment You crammed for your exams, the Final Report (and late nights to finish it) are all a distant memory and you have emerged as proud owner of a shiny new Engineering degree. Congratulations! Sadly, several months have now passed; [...]]]></description>
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