Almost half (48%) of UK small businesses are using smartphones for email or to use the internet for business purposes, with a further 9% planning to adopt this technology this year.
This is according to findings of the Quarterly Survey of Small Business in Britain by The Open University Business School, Barclays and ACCA.
Ed Percival, business coach
The world has changed. Economic depression has altered things forever. Your world of recruiting won’t come back the way it was. And human beings will kill for familiarity.
More than half of UK workers say their relationship has broken down due to their partner’s job, according to new data from HireScores.com.
The data shows that when asked the question “has your relationship breakdown ever been a result of either yours or your partner’s job?”, 53% answered yes, while 31% said no and the remaining respondents were unsure.
Since starting a career in recruitment it’s an industry I am proud to be a part of - and now it is an industry I am proud to provide a service to. Most of the people I speak to on a daily basis want to leave their desk at the end of the day not only feeling proud of what they’ve achieved from a revenue point of view but also from a service point of view.
Accountancy service provider to the freelance market JSA has launched an online job board.
The job board - http://jobs.jsagroup.co.uk is free to use for contractors and recruiters.
Nakama, the digital, creative and marketing recruiter, is opening its fifth office on 25 October in Sydney, Australia.
Director, Paul Goodship, says: “Melbourne has gone really well for us and we can see a massive opportunity in Sydney. We are planning to hire around 40 people in the next 12 months and expect to open in Hong Kong early next year.”
Recruiter is interested in finding out more about the attitude to risk within the recruitment sector.
The director of a rail staffing specialist recruitment firm has been banned from running an employment agency for seven years, following an investigation by the Employment Agency Standards inspectorate (EAS), part of the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills.
