Online recruitment activity fell in September, according to the latest UK Monster Employment Index.
The index gave a reading of 135 in September, down from 138 in August. However September signalled a 3% annual rise in online job opportunities.
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Strong international growth has helped global recruiter Robert Walters offset a fall in net fee income within the UK for Q3 on the same period last year, according to an interim management statement for the third quarter ended 30 September 2011.
The statement reveals:
Gear manufacturer David Brown Gear Systems will create around 80 new jobs at its Huddersfield factory having secured £4.8m in private and government funding.
A redevelopment of a former fabrication yard in Scotland could create up to 2,000 jobs, reports BBC News.
Energy company Global Energy Group has been given the go-ahead to buy the facility at Nigg in the Highlands, and will develop it as a service hub for the energy industry.
Online candidate-to-employer matching solution HireMatch.me is set to work with point-of-sale and promotional communications agency ADM Promotions.
ADM will identify key development areas among workers from HireMatch.me’s ‘Work Behaviour Assessment’ programme, developing hiring and training plans.
A Tesco ‘regeneration partnership store’ has opened in Sheffield, getting over 100 long-term unemployed back into work.
UK multi-sector executive search firm Snowdon Tate has joined executive search network Signium International.
David Sneesby, managing partner of Snowdon Tate, says the number of executive searches his business is carrying out has trebled in the last three years.
Signium now has 41 offices in 27 countries across the world.
The recruitment industry’s favourite social business network LinkedIn thrives on people giving up-to-date and full information about themselves and their professional life.
A huge new Facebook data centre covering 30,000sq m – the size of 11 football pitches – will create at least 30 full-time roles in Sweden’s arctic circle city of Luleå.
The environmentally-friendly site will be the largest facility of its kind in Europe, and will handle all Facebook data for Europe, the Middle East and Africa.
Career and talent management organisation Fairplace Cedar has appointed Penny de Valk as chief executive.
De Valk joins from the Institute of Leadership and Management, where she had held the position of CEO since 2007, having previously worked for HR services firm Ceridian and the Institute of Management in her native New Zealand.