Green shoots
13 September 2012
After months of profit warnings and closures, there are signs that the economic downturn may be coming to an end and that the threat of recession has been averted
For months the recruitment industry has been groaning under the weight of the slowing economy. Some sectors, particularly IT and telecoms, have been suffering for over a year. Redundancies are no longer news for the industry. Over the last six months agencies have laid off their under-performers, and most have failed to replace those lost through natural attrition....