International recruitment specialist Robert Walters announced that profits after taxation were £12.2m for the 12 months ending 31 December 2008 compared with £17.4m in 2007.
Revenue rose by 5% to £337.3m compared with £319.8m in 2007.
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Transcend has been chosen as a partner for the multi-million pound rail development.
The joint venture between construction services companies AECOM, CH2M Hill and Nichols Group, will be responsible for “strategic programme management” worth in the region of £100m, according to the Crossrail company.
The pay of NHS bosses in England rose by more than three times that of nurses last year.
Figures from pay research company Income Data Services revealed that directors of NHS Foundations in England saw their pay rise by 6.4%, compared with the 1.9% awarded to nurses.
At at a time when many recruiters are scrutinising costs, finance and IT recruiter Astbury Marsden is altering its commission structure in a bid to attract and retain good consultants.
In a trading update, Hexagon Human Capital says it anticipates that net fee income (NFI) for the quarter ending 31 March 2009 will be below that for the same quarter in 2008.
The number of civil engineering projects starting in April increased by 20% on the previous year, according to figures from the Glenigan construction index.
Adrian Davies, business development director at multi-sector recruiter Acorn, told Recruiter the company had increased the number of on-site personnel over the past six months.
Client companies are waging war on recruitment service providers, seeking to impose their own contracts, which often contain potentially harmful clauses. Vanessa Townsend looks at the possible problems and how recruiters can push back against these conditions or insure against them
Defence company BAE Systems plans to close three UK-based factories.
A spokesperson from the company, which currently employs 1,820 people in the UK, says Guildford, Leeds and Telford will close with the loss of some 330 jobs; 50 jobs will be lost at Newcastle and seven jobs will be lost at Leicester, among other efficiency savings.