The graduate jobs market is showing early signs of confidence returning, according to Richard Irwin, head of student recruitment at PwC.
Irwin’s comments come as PwC records a 118% increase in applications against the same period last year, having recruited 1,200 full time graduate and student vacancies to start in 2011, while more than 400 internships are also available.
Consolidation in the UK healthcare recruitment sector is set to continue, according to Tim Evans, managing director at deals specialist Boxington Corporate Finance.
Evans’ comments follow FT reports over the weekend that US private equity firm Blackstone had acquired healthcare recruiter Pulse.
Confidence among candidates and employers continues to increase but a full recovery remains some way off, according to international recruiter Hays.
Following legal recruiter ASA Law’s recent acquisition by Initio International, Daniel Lewis has been promoted to managing director of ASA Law, while Keith Miles has been appointed as director.
Lewis was previously a director at ASA Law, while Keith Miles was a senior consultant.
The UAE needs more experienced medical staff as it seeks to dramatically expand its services, according to a survey from healthcare recruiter Your World.
More than 75% of the delegates at questioned by Your World the recent Abu Dhabi Medical Congress event agreed that in order to ease recruitment problems in the area, salaries must rise.
Dean Shoesmith has urged caution on the Office for Budget Responsibility’s (OBR’s) “speculative” downward predictions for public sector job losses.
Work can and should work much better. That’s according to Blaire Palmer, executive coach and author of a new book entitled What’s Wrong with Work?.
Any attempt to reopen the debate on the scrapping of the default retirement age (DRA) is “backward looking and unhelpful”, according to Chris Ball – chief executive of TAEN – The Age and Employment Network, and Michelle Mitchell, charity director of Age UK.
China Shuangji Cement, a producer of Portland cement in Shandong and Hainan Provinces in the People’s Republic of China (PRC), has retained Column Associates to find a new full-time chief finance officer to replace its interim CFO.
Four out of 10 (41%) City professionals believe their organisations will increase headcount in 2011, according to a survey by eFinancialCareers.com.
Almost the same number (39%) said they believed staff numbers would remain the same. However, 20% thought their staffing levels would reduce.