IT recruitment-to-recruitment firm IT Ventures has appointed two consultants.
Sinead Kavanagh is to focus on the PC Development market placing contract professionals within the Midlands area, while Chris Costello joins the firm’s contracts team recruiting within Greater Manchester.
Attractive people are more likely to land a new job than those less fortunate, according to new research from hirescores.com.
The research reveals that 67% of employers admit to being more inclined to give an attractive person a job than those who are no strangers to the ugly stick.
Recruiter has obtained a list of recruitment firms that have been appointed to the government’s Buying Solutions Non-Permanent Staff (NPS) framework.
The full list is in the attached pdf to the right.
Hiring sentiment is strongest among emerging markets, according to the latest Manpower employment outlook survey.
The survey of more than 61,000 employers found those in China, Taiwan, India and Brazil bullish on hiring, with employers in China, Switzerland and Taiwan reporting their strongest hiring plans since Manpower began polling these countries.
Jo Hand Recruitment has relocated to a new office in Middlesbrough to service the growing demand for its services in the Tees Valley.
Previously located in offices above Albert Road, Jo Hand Recruitment’s move to a ground floor office provides the business with a greater visible presence within the town.
Timothy James, the senior appointments recruiter, has moved to new London offices following rapid growth since moving to the capital in March.
The former owner and area manager of Slough-based Rapier Recruitment have been found guilty of using an unlicensed agency in Poland to provide them with the eight workers that were placed into Cornish fields.
Conditions in the Scottish labour market remained challenging last month, according to the latest data from the Bank of Scotland (BoS) ‘Report on Jobs’.
The number of workers placed in permanent job roles fell for the second successive month, while growth of temp billings weakened to the lowest level since September 2009.
CV-Library has acquired British Jobs.net website of The British Jobs Network, along with its network of 600 geographical domains.
The British Jobs Network contains 600 local job sites which attract 300,000 monthly unique users in England, Scotland and Wales.
The UK economy is “on the mend” but continued growth is likely to be more subdued, according to Rob Dobson, senior economist at Markit.
Dobson’s comments follow the International Monetary Fund’s backing of the coalition austerity measures this week.