Two separate data releases yesterday point to good news in the US labour market – with temporary staffing activity sustaining a 2013 high, while the number of youths finding summer work was at its highest in four years.
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Employment law and health & safety advisers Citation has acquired fellow compliance provider Bibby Consulting and Support for an undisclosed sum.
Job site CV-Library has been chosen as the generic job board supplier to Hyper Recruitment Solutions (HRS), the agency set up by The Apprentice winner Ricky Martin, for the second year running.
The UAE and Qatar are seen as top locations to advance a career in construction, according to the 91% of built environment professionals who tells a survey from specialist job site CareerStructure.com that they would be interested in moving abroad to work.
The Financial Times reports that major investment banks have begun hiring “dealmakers and traders” across Europe and even breaking their traditional summer freeze in order to secure the best talent.
Yesterday (20 August) saw the global Maritime Labour Convention (2006) (MLC) come into force, with recruiters in maritime and seafaring industries coming to grips with what the International Labour Organization (ILO) calls “a new era” for “the most globalized of industries” and its workforce.
Japanese staffing group Recruit Co has acquired outright Indian executive search firm NuGrid Consulting – Recruit's second move into the broader Asian executive recruitment market.
Yesterday’s ‘summit’ on zero-hours contracts, held by Labour’s shadow business secretary Chuka Umunna (pictured), will inform policy as the party looks to set out its stall on the issue in Parliament next month, a spokesperson for the MP tells recruiter.co.uk.
We've all heard of the perils of complex online job applications irking applicants, but things went one step further in Nigeria this week as would-be civil servants staged a peaceful protest, holding up vehicles in a busy road in the country's capital Abuja.
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