APSCo Asia, a new trade body for recruitment agencies operating in Singapore and across Asia, is to be launched by the UK’s Association of Professional Staffing Companies (APSCo), chief executive officer Ann Swain tells Recruiter.
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The significant opportunities open to UK and international recruitment firms are best served by having an office in the country, recruiters familiar with the market and broader overseas expansion suggest tell Recruiter.
The risk of the UK falling into a triple-dip recession is “greatly reduced”, according to research firm Markit’s analysis of its latest Purchasing Managers Index (PMI) – while another research body suggests the UK economy will grow this year.
The healthcare and social assistance industry was the top performer in terms of employment growth over the past five years, and should maintain that position in coming years, according to a new publication from the Australian government.
A major construction project in Birmingham is due to create 2,850 full-time equivalent roles, while telecommunications firm O2 is looking for 100 interns in paid roles and 60 graduates, and oil producer EnQuest should create around 1,000 new jobs across the industry supply chain.
China may be nearing the ‘Lewis Turning Point’ at which it would no longer be able to achieve growth through its vast supply of competitively low-cost workers, according to an International Monetary Fund report.
Three firms are to open up 100 new jobs apiece across the US.
After the employment chief of manufacturing industry body EEF described the process of hiring non-EU technical workers like “pulling teeth” last week, the UK resourcing manager of one oil & gas services firm tells Recruiter that the situation is not that desperate.
Over half of UK finance directors have no succession plan in place, according to professional recruiter Robert Half – and banking group Barclays is among these it has emerged, following the FD’s decision to retire.
Outgoing Metropolitan Police chief superintendent Dal Babu says that when it comes to the need for more black and Asian recruits to the police, a lot of former colleagues “don’t get it”.