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Taking marketshare and new contract wins have helped Harvey Nash post a 28% year-on-year increase in revenues, according to chief executive Albert Ellis.
Scottish multi-sector recruiter Brightwork has announced record turnover and profit in its fifth year of business.
It reached £24m in sales in the year to December and after tax profits total £750,000. The company operates in both temporary and permanent hires.
HR and corporate communications recruiter VMA Group has appointed Andrew Holland as senior consultant for the business’s internal communications division.
Holland has over 16 years experience in internal communications, most recently holding the position of UK head of internal communications for defence contractor BAE Systems.
Social media and HR recruiter Talent Genius has launched LinkedIn 2 Business, a LinkedIn training provider.
Managing director Steve Smithson says the training will be provided to businesses and individuals at all levels of experience, including recruitment agencies.
Technical recruiter Gold Group has appointed Matt Price as team leader of its contract services division.
Price has a background in team management and contract recruitment in the mechanical and electrical and construction sectors.
Salaries for advertised administrative roles held steady in October, showing one of the lowest month-on-month decreases across all office jobs, according to Office Angels and the latest data from mysalarychecker.com.
Going to university has gone “beyond a choice and become a rite of passage”, according to research commissioned by recruitment solutions firm TMP Worldwide and accountancy firm PwC.
And TARGETjobs research shows that UK-wide graduate vacancies are at 64% of their February 2008 level.
SQL Server jobs continue to lead demand in the IT industry, according to research from The IT Job Board’s Salary Monitor.
November saw 18,817 developer jobs in London, the most popular permanent job role by location, while finance roles in London become the most advertised contractor role, with 7,246 roles.
It is better to hire two or three new recruitment consultants in one go rather than one at a time, according to Steve Finkel, a recruitment industry trainer, author and recruiter.