Extra 8,000 staff a week needed by recruiters at Cordant pre-Xmas

Cordant Group says its six recruitment brands will be supplying an average of 28,000 temporary workers per week in the run up to Christmas.
Thu, 21 Nov 2013Cordant Group says its six recruitment brands will be supplying an average of 28,000 temporary workers per week in the run up to Christmas.

This is 8,000 more than it would normally supply in an average week throughout the year.

Prime Time Recruitment, one of Cordant’s brands, is on its own recruiting more than 200 temporary call centre operators to deal with the high volume of orders received by clients operating in retail and other industries between now and the end of the year.

  • See last week’s November edition of Recruiter for more from family-owned Cordant Group’s chief executive officer as the organisation enters a “new era”.

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