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James Barrett has been promoted to operating director of Michael Page Technology and Michael Page Consultancy, Strategy and Change.
Digital recruiter October Recruitment has promoted Vanessa Hastings to associate director heading digital sales and ad ops.
Saudi Arabia has introduced a scheme to boost employment of Saudi nationals by fining companies that draw more than half their staff from expatriate circles, The Saudi Gazette reports.
Two law firms have made big savings in agency costs by relaunching candidate referral schemes, contributing to significant increases in direct hiring.

Recruiters providing ICT services to government are likely to have to go through G-Cloud procurement framework in the future, according to the Cabinet Office and recent comments from a government minister.

Optima Corporate Finance has entered into a deal to become service partners with the Association of Labour Providers (ALP), the trade association for suppliers of workers within the food, agricultural and other Gangmasters Licensing Authority (GLA) regulated sectors.
A judge’s backing for a Gangmasters Licensing Authority (GLA) decision to refuse contractor and agency solutions provider FS Commercial (FSC) a licence has “enormous significance” for the use of travel & subsistence schemes in the recruitment industry, says Andy Hogarth, chairman and chief executive of staffing provider Staffline Group.
A £4.5m scholarship fund for undergraduates will encourage those who might be put off attending university by financial circumstances.
More than 20,000 people have registered an interest in the first two weeks of the campaign to recruit 15,000 volunteers for the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games, according to the Games’ general manager of volunteering.
Two-thirds of jobless people would rather lose their benefits than work, government figures have shown.
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