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The same day that unemployment rose to its highest level in nearly two decades, recruitment consultancy Reed reports, somewhat incongruously, that October saw the largest month-on-month growth in job opportunities since 2009.
Danbro, an accountancy and payroll provider specialising in contract, freelance and temporary staff, has become sole provider to engineering, manufacturing and commercial recruiter M65 Recruitment.
Beach Baker Property Recruitment has announced the appointment of Matthew Clackson, Martin Lynch and Laine Teesdale.
Clackson joins as senior consultant in the company’s Bristol office.
Martin Lynch also becomes a senior consultant, but in the London office, where he will recruit building and quantity surveyors and project managers.
Australia’s new Carbon Tax set to be introduced in July of next year should protect jobs and create new ones, according to specialist engineering executive search firm Allen & York Australia.
Toyota will invest more than £100m in UK operations, creating up to 1,500 jobs in the next two years at its factory in Burnaston, Derbyshire.
The first phase of recruitment will see 500 new jobs in the middle of 2012.
Chancellor George Osborne’s Autumn Statement has given the green light to a number of major infrastructure projects, including the construction of a new rail link between Oxford, Bedford and Milton Keynes which he says will create 12,000 new jobs.
The second consecutive rise in the Reed Job Index suggests the UK economy may be rebalancing towards the industrial sector, according to James Reed, chairman of reed.co.uk.
Sales software provider Silverline will provide its services to ProTech Specialist Technical Recruitment and procurement and purchasing recruiter Beaumont Select.
Paul Flynn, commercial manager for Silverline, says: “Beaumont Select and ProTech are both specialised staffing businesses in their own right… this really demonstrates the flexibility of Silverline.”
The diversity of UK boards over the last 24 years has changed for the better, but the link between executive pay and performance remains hard to discern, reports an Economic and Social Research Council-funded study by the University of Exeter Business School.