Technical recruiter Atlan Resource Solutions has released half year results for the year ended April 2009.
Earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation (EBITDA) grew from £236,000 to £538,000, a near 128% increase while revenues rose from £15.4m to £20.5m an increase of nearly 33%.
Large companies in food retailing are bucking the trend and are placing a strong emphasis on searching out the best in human capital, according to an executive search recruiter.
Recruiters are benefiting from jobs cuts in financial services as smaller companies take advantage of the situation to hire good quality staff, according to one recruiter.
Working long hours is no indication of how hard someone works, according to a new survey.
The survey, from T-Mobile and Kingston University Business School, shows that 59% of employers do not think how long employers work is an indicator of how hard they work, while 46% of employers offer no reward to those who work late or more than their normal hours.
Britain’s workforce is “woefully ill-prepared” to compete for jobs in the public sector – one of the few anticipating vacancies in 2009, according to Hays UK.
Hays believes that people looking for more job security by moving from the private sector are failing to recognise that they need to retrain or prepare for the different work ethos and pressures that they will face.
Unemployment in the US has reached its highest level for 26 years.
According to figures from the US Labor Department, the number of people still on jobless rolls, after drawing an initial week of aid, jumped 101,000 to 4.6m in the week ended 27 December, the highest since November 1982.
Dan Morrison: agency margins squeezed by clients
Admin recruitment will be among the first sectors to emerge after the recession, according to admin and secretarial recruiters.
David Morel, managing director at Tiger Recruitment, told Recruiter that the sector was generally three months ahead of other markets.
HM Revenue & Customs has re-iterated its position that the VAT staff hire concession will be removed from 1 April.
Tom Hadley, Recruitment & Employment Confederation (REC) director of external relations, told Recruiter the REC received a letter last week indicating that HMRC “is sticking to its guns”.
Small businesses will get a one-stop shop for guidance on health and safety and employment legislation, the Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform (BERR) announced today.
An independent review, led by former recruitment business owner Sarah Anderson CBE, has recommended a range of solutions to improve the quality of guidance government gives to business.