Revenues have fallen at Kellan Group but the group believes the UK is in the early stages of recovery, according to the group’s half-year interim report 2010.
The group’s results reveal:
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K Fehling & Associates (KFA), a US predominantly life science executive search firm based in Jacksonville, Florida, has opened an office in San Francisco.
As part of the expansion to serve the biotech and medical device industries, KFA has appointed Lori Christiansen as biotech practice leader and executive search consultant, and hired Mary Letterii as senior associate.
The rise of sourcing as a profession all on its own within the HR and recruitment communities was highlighted at SourceCon 2010, a conference held at the end of last month in Washington, DC.
A new study by Offerssupermarket.co.uk, an online fashion search engine and retail site, found that politicians are the least trusted profession.
The number of recruitment agencies entering administration in the first three months of 2010 increased by 21% on the previous quarter, with 23 businesses failing.
A survey by Recruiterfound that at least 14 of the 23 were still trading in some form, often with the goodwill and assets of the company having been bought back by the original management.
Chief executive of VMA Group Julia Meighan is set to appear on Channel 4’s How the Other Half Live.
Meighan was approached to do the programme and, with her family, saw it as a real opportunity to help someone out in business and put something back, providing financial and emotional support to single mum Zofia.
The programme will air at 9pm tonight.
Manpower sees ‘favourable economic trends ahead’ as it exceeded its anticipated revenue plans in its Q1 results.
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Recruitment training and development firm Zero Entropy Networks has launched.
The firm, founded by trainer Jeremy Snell, provides business appraisal and training needs analysis, and then develops bespoke development and training initiatives aligned to an organisation’s strategic objectives.
More than half of recruitment firms are worth less than they were last year, according to research from analyst Plimsoll.
International multi-sector recruiter Robert Michael Group (RMG) has reported a doubling of new job orders in its China operations.
Both RMG Selection’s operations in Beijing and Shanghai saw new job orders double in April compared to January 2010.