Recruitment and training agency Acorn has been awarded a place as a Crown Commercial Service (CCS) supplier on the non-medical, non-clinical (NMNC) temporary staffing framework for the NHS.
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Industrial and logistics staffing specialist Protec Recruitment has secured £1.4m in funding from Secure Trust Bank Commercial Finance.
Business outsourcing provider Capita saw double-digit growth in profits and revenue in the first six months of 2015.
Three-quarters of the nurses recruited by an NHS Trust, whose chief executive recently described the recruitment of nurses from overseas as “distracting, frustrating and expensive”, came from overseas, Recruiter can reveal.
The government has launched a consultation on protecting the term ‘apprenticeship’ from being diluted by unauthorised training providers who deliver apprenticeships designed only to meet narrowly focused job needs.
A mentoring scheme, which aims to boost the number of women at board level in the pub industry, looks set to be rolled out to other sectors, according to Emma Causer, account director at BT which developed the scheme.
Just over half of recruiters are satisfied with their remuneration, according to a report from recruitment trade body the Recruitment & Employment Confederation (REC) in partnership with global job search engine Indeed.
A total of 86 executive search firms and organisations have signed up to the government’s voluntary code of conduct aimed at boosting the number of women on company boards.
Education recruiters are split on whether excessive workload, including sending and receiving emails after 5pm and at the weekends, and marking long into the night, are putting off people from entering the teaching profession.
Organisations representing the recruitment industry say they welcome the government’s proposal to establish a Small Business Commissioner (the so-called ‘Small Business Czar’) to address the problems of late payment by large clients.