For most investors in UK-listed recruiters, 2011 was an annus horribilis with the sector underperforming the wider market by close to 40% as sentiment towards highly cyclical stocks succumbed to an increasingly uncertain economic climate. Hays and Robert Walters were notable underperformers, down 47% in the year.
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Auto maker BMW Group is to open a plant in Brazil in 2014, which will create more than 1,000 direct jobs and provide a major boost to supply chain employers.
Physicians Choice Laboratory Services (PCLS), a provider of testing services to clinicians, is to create 364 new jobs when it establishes a new base in York County, South Carolina.
Controversial EU proposals to impose gender parity quotas for company boardrooms will now not be debated until next month, after the plans met with opposition and lawyers’ threats that they could be considered illegal.
Corporate social responsibility (CSR) policies, which traditionally have focused on green issues, must turn towards recruitment that includes disadvantaged groups, according to a new report.
Professional social network LinkedIn unveiled three new features for in-house resourcing professionals at its Talent Connect conference in London yesterday [24 October], attended by Recruiter.
Rec-to-rec agency SW6 Associates has been formed in South-West London from three separate rival firms.
Ricky Martin, this year’s winner of the BBC’s The Apprentice, launched his joint venture recruitment company, Hyper Recruitment Solutions (HRS), last night at the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) in London’s Piccadilly.
Reading College has joined forces with The Reed-NCFE Partnership to help its students prepare for and find work.
Executive search and interim management specialist Eton Bridge Partners is to take on two new consultants in its interim division.