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Insurance group Aviva has selected professional recruiter  Spring Group as UK master vendor to supply all its business change and IT contingent workers.

Representing £50m of Aviva’s resourcing spend, the service went live in January, initially for three years, and will drive cost reductions, quality improvements and compliance to FSA regulations.

Contract sales organisation (CSO) and healthcare recruiter STAR has secured financial backing from Dragons’ Den investor James Caan.

Caan is now a shareholder and investor in STAR and will act as a non-executive director on its board.

Allowing tips to top up staff pay to minimum wage levels will be illegal from October this year, the government has announced.

The government says it will also be working towards greater transparency and clarity for consumers by introducing a new industry code of best practice.

Twitter may be viewed as just another social networking site, wasting employees’ time and preventing them working, but is this really the case? Vanessa Townsend looks at the business benefits of Twittering

Munir Mamujee

Sales and management recruiter m2r has been invited to 10 Downing Street to talk about its successful export strategy in the Middle East.

Hays Health and Social Care has launched LOCATE Project Management Methodology, a new project methodology programme.

The LOCATE guide manages the entire process, from candidate attraction, interviews, compliance and culminating in the arrival of the new employees.

Russell Clements

Russell Clements

International recruiter SThree’s profits slumped by 9% to £93.3m in its interim results for the six months  ended 31 May 2009.

Recruiters can now view the British Chambers of Commerce (BCC) webinar, in which managing director of Sue Hill Recruitment, Sue Hill, contributed.

The WebTV programme discussed the possible consequences of swine flu, how businesses should prepare and how they should react if it hits their business.

Business network XING has recorded 35% higher revenues in the first six months of 2009.

Total revenues jumped  to €21.54m (£18.49m), while the number of paying members increased by 21% to 635,000 members.

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