Derek MacFeate has been promoted to the position of executive director of Scotland for Page Executive, part of the PageGroup – the new brand name for Michael Page International as of earlier this week.
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IT recruiter DP Connect has opened a new operation in Cambridge, which chief executive Toni Cocozza says is “one of the key technology hubs in the UK”.
Continental Europe-wide recruiter USG People saw an 11% yearly decline in revenues in Q3, but its chief executive Rob Zandbergen says that compared to last year this drop slowed, with some markets seeing a return to growth in September.
Despite a job report showing consistent albeit modest job growth across the US tech sector, the industry “can’t take its strength for granted”, according to the president of industry advocacy group TechAmerica Foundation.
Recruitment & Employment Confederation (REC) chief executive Kevin Green (pictured left) warned an audience of recruiters and suppliers last night that the organisation was going to “shine a bright light” on the practices of “payroll, umbrella companies and the dodgy non-REC recruiters”.
The two former directors of a liquidated Walsall recruitment company have each been given three-and-a-half year bans from being company directors after an investigation from the Insolvency Service found they previously paid no tax during the operation of the now-liquidated company.
Despite gloom in the South-West, four in 10 UK workers describe themselves as happy, a rise from the 37% seen this time last year, according to a survey of 1,000 workers from commercial recruiter Office Angels.
Staffing firm Empresaria has acquired the remaining shares in Empresaria Holding Deutschland, the holding company of the Headway group of recruitment companies it had purchased in 2007.
Remploy is to deliver a £2.3m scheme aimed at supporting 400 young people with learning disabilities into work, as part of the Mayor of London-European Social Fund Youth Programme.
Over 2,000 UK jobs in fabrication, construction, installation, subsea engineering and drilling will be created or sustained by a new £1.6bn project to extend the life of the North Sea oil fields announced yesterday [24 October].