US executive recruiters’ optimism about growth in the executive employment market over the next six months softened slightly in June, according to ExecuNet’s Recruiter Confidence Index.
However, their confidence in management hiring plans in the short term hit a two-year high.
Ejobsboard has launched and redesigned www.educationjobs.com.
Retail and sales recruiter R3 Resourcing has promoted Paul Harron to managing consultant of R3 Resourcing in Manchester.
Global provider of recruitment and human capital management software & services, Bond International Software, has launched its iPhone and iPad apps for Bond Adapt.
Specialist IT, technical and engineering recruitment consultancy IntaPeople has taken on an additional three staff members.
Rowland Roberts, Kamaal Mitha and Thahmina Sultana join the company as recruitment consultants, each tasked with further expanding IntaPeople’s reach across Wales, the rest of the UK and Europe.
Car production in the UK is up 28.6% in June compared with June 2009, according to the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders.
This was up 55% over the year-to-date. Commercial vehicle output also rose by 24.9% compared to June 2009, and is 49.6% up in the first six months of the year.
The government’s intention to scrap an informal code guaranteeing public sector benefits for thousands of workers outsourced to the private sector will open up the market to medium and small-sized outsourcing companies.
Legal recruiter BCL Legal has appointed Chika Okeke as trainee consultant.
BCL Legal has offices in Birmingham, Bristol, Leeds, Liverpool, Manchester and Reading. Okeke will be based in the firm’s Manchester office.
There has been a loss of full-time jobs and shift to part-time working since the start of the recession, according to ‘Working Hours in the Recession’, published by the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD).
Engineering, science, technology and professional recruiter Matchtech Group says it has seen some “signs of a gradual recovery” as net fee incomes have risen in a trading update for the year ended 31 July 2010.
The update reveals:
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