Gerri Spiers, a personal assistant (PA) from London, has been described as Britain’s most dedicated job-hunter by London’s Evening Standard daily newspaper after taking to the streets of London wearing a sandwich board to look for work.
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Oxford International, the IT and engineering recruiter, is to receive a €16m (£13m) investment into its Cork-based European headquarters, which will create more than 50 new jobs over the next 18 months.
The US Department of Labor has made available a $5.6m (£3.3m) National Emergency Grant to assist with the clean-up and recovery efforts from severe storms, tornadoes and flooding in Mississippi at the end of April.
MBN Recruitment, the insight & analytics, IT and digital & marketing recruiter, has changed its name to MBN Solutions and launched a new website.
Edinburgh-based Xpress Recruitment, the hospitality, retail and sales recruiter, has launched a new Middle East and Asia executive search and selection division.
Telecoms firm BT is launching a major recruitment drive across the UK, with 1,600 new engineering jobs being created at Openreach, BT’s local access network business.
Fears have been raised that Labour’s proposal to increase the National Minimum Wage (NMW) by linking it to average earnings would increase the use of ‘shady’ non-self employment models.
Ciett, the international confederation of private employment services (PrES), has elected a new board at its annual conference in Brussels, to oversee the organisation until 2017.
Last week’s annual gathering of the global recruitment clan saw federations and recruiters from over 30 different countries converge on Brussels for the 2014 Ciett World Employment Conference.
The £3.7bn merger of high street chains Dixons and Carphone Warehouse announced yesterday is expected to lead to the creation of around 1,700 new jobs in the combined group.