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Job creation in Brazil was up 10% in September, rising to 209,078 from 190,446 the previous month, reports Bloomberg.com.

The services and civil construction sector were at the forefront of this growth.

Blue-chip employers gathered this morning in the City for the launch of a 10-point recruitment protocol that will put the onus on recruitment agencies to provide barrier-free recruitment specifically for disabled candidates.

Suppressing prejudices against personal characteristics such as race, belief, age, gender, sexual orientation and disability merely strengthens them, a chartered psychologist has told a London audience.

West Yorkshire multi-sector recruiter Synergy People Solutions has appointed two new consultants to its construction and logistics division.

Rebecca Challis will work in the logistics division primarily with drivers and warehouse personnel. She joins from generalist recruiter Logical Personnel Solutions.

Richard Love

Richard Love

Rebranding Odgers Select to Berwick Partners was not a result of brand confusion, the managing director of the newly-named division of executive search firm Odgers Berndtson told Recruiter.

Multi-sector executive search firms Grosvenor Wright and Clive & Stokes International have merged to create Grosvenor Clive and Stokes.

Keith Evans and Tim Beckh, formerly of Grosvenor Wright, become managing partners of the new executive search firm.

Clive & Stokes’ principals Jayne Maxwell and John Collier remain with the new company.

UK IT services group Parity Group says it remains confident in its strategy and that it is on target to meet its expectations this year.

According to the group’s interim management statement for the period from 1 July 2011 to date, the group is on course to exit from the its outsourced IT contract in December, resulting in a saving over £500k per annum in future years.

UK students are more motivated by salary than many of their international counterparts, according to Cisco’s 2011 Connected World Technology Report.

While globally two-thirds of respondents called salary the prime consideration for future employment, 81% of UK students, second only to French students at 83%, felt so.

Adecco has announced revenues of €5.3bn (£4.54bn) for Q3 2011, a 4% increase on the same quarter in 2010 or 7% ‘organic’ growth when currency growth is taken into account.

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