The unemployment rate for the period August to October 2012 was 7.8%, down by 0.2% on the previous three month period and 0.5% on a year before, shows newly-released Office for National Statistics data.
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Norman Rose is the new executive director of the Recruitment Society. His appointment follows Steve Huxham’s stepping down from the chief executive role within the organisation.
For the first time, Recruiter has created a hybrid league table showing those recruitment firms who have managed to mix fast turnover growth and high profitability, making it on to both the FAST 50 and HOT 100 lists for 2012.
Recruitment group STR Group has launched niche biotechnology recruitment brand Zavendi – the fifth company launched by STR this year.
Network Rail’s head of resourcing Adrian Thomas says he is “quite enjoying the thought process of here’s an opportunity to do something new”, having announced he is to leave the company in February.
IT & telecoms recruiter Darwin Recruitment has opened a new office in Zurich, Switzerland.
Despite being world-renowned as a centre of the tech industry, Silicon Valley has fallen some way behind other cities as an attractive destination for ICT talent, finds a report from analytics firm Intelligence Group.
News publisher the Midlands News Association (MNA), which produces the Express & Star, Britain’s biggest-selling regional news title, has broken into the recruitment agency market.
Today sees two separate labour market surveys revealing good news for jobs and employment in the UK.
The UK population became better educated, more ethnically diverse and older between 2001 and 2011, according to the census data released today for 2011.