The UK’s manufacturing sector has seen a surge in employment in Q2, according to British Chambers of Commerce’s latest Economic Survey.
The survey shows that employment in manufacturing rose 35 points to +19%. Employment expectations in the sector also increased by 16 points to +14%.
Former Morgan McKinley chief executive Robert Thesiger on Wednesday (14 July) formally launched his new City-focused recruitment business, BRUIN Financial.
Established in March, the financial services recruitment firm now has 31 staff. “We have about 73 clients now,” Thesiger told Recruiter. “For four-and-a-half months, that’s good going.”
Recruitment agencies can only build strong relationships after they have demonstrated their value to clients.
Hays has launched the next stage in its challenge to a £30.4m fine imposed by the Office of Fair Trading for competition law breaches, according to sources close to the company.
The Advertising Standards Authority has upheld a complaint against an online job advert placed by London Marketing Services of Shand Street, London.
Human capital resourcing and software solutions provider IT Human Resources (ITHR) has agreed a deal with Revas InTime, a back office time recording, billing and payroll solution for recruitment agencies.
Online information and advice source for private tuition Thetutorpages.com has launched a new board for academic, languages and music tutors.
The system enables parents, students and organisations such as schools to request tutors and get an immediate response.
Private tuition requests are also tweeted on a new ’Tutors Wanted’ board on Twitter.
Recruiters have hit back at claims by unions that recruitment agencies have been guilty of “ripping off” hospitals by charging “outrageous fees”.
The US’s unemployment rate was unchanged at 9.6%, according to the country’s Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Non-farm payrolls fell by 54,000 in August, which economists the centre for economics and business research (cebr) says reflects a large contraction in temporary government employment only partially offset by a better than an anticipated rise in the number of private sector jobs.
Rise Group has appointed Julie Calisir as head of recruitment and Anke Jardine as head of multi-lingual recruitment.
Calisir was senior divisional manager at The Resource Group, part of Change Recruitment Group, and recently led a lead generation project at Monster, while Jardine was previously managing director at multi-lingual recruitment specialist European Resource Group.