Staffing firm Empresaria has acquired a further 26.7% share of medical recruitment agencies MediradiX OÜ of Estonia and MediradiX Oy of Finland.
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Service station operator Welcome Break Group has implemented talent management solutions firm SuccessFactors’ Business Execution (BizX) suite of software.
The chief executive of recruiter ITHR Consulting, Sean Gallagher, has become a patron of charity the Prince’s Trust, providing income to the charity and career advice and guidance to young people through its youth organisation Fairbridge.
Professional services firm KPMG has extended its audit school leavers scheme to include the University of Birmingham, alongside current partners Durham and Exeter universities.
Over 80% of UK contractors do not search for a new role until the last two months of an ongoing contract and 15% of these do not even start searching until they are already out of work.
Unemployment fell to its lowest level for almost a year between April and June, according to the Office for National Statistics.
G4S's failure to recruit sufficient numbers of security staff for the London Olympics highlighted the importance for businesses in the staffing sector to consider how best to protect themselves from similar doomsday scenarios.
The continuing economic recession means that the buying and selling of businesses that make up the M&A market is set to remain restricted for even longer.
July saw an 8.7% rise in job vacancies on the previous month, according to the UK Labour Market Indices (LMI) compiled by interdealer broker and risk and information firm ICAP.
While the online job market registered a year-on-year decline in July, the public sector, defence and community category showed a significant rise in job openings, finds job board Monster’s Employment Index UK.