Network Rail has named Bechtel as its delivery partner for £2.3bn of work on the £16bn Crossrail scheme and the Reading station upgrade project.
The announcement comes after the US engineering company had won the contract for delivery partner on the central tunnelled section and to manage the construction of the central section of the project.
US executive search firms are showing increasing signs of confidence, according to US-based ExecuNet’s April Recruiter Confidence Index.
Recruiters’ short-term confidence increased slightly in April, as 18% report being confident or very confident that the executive employment market will improve during the next three months — up from 15% in March.
Healthcare staffing firm PULSE has launched a new engineering division.
The division will cater for a range of positions from specialist technical roles such as professional technical, electronic, FMCG and food engineers with commercial experience across the aerospace, defence, medical devices, FMCG, food & drink and other industries.
Job board Oilcareers.com has appointed Mark Guest as managing director.
Speaking at a London roundtable event, Colin Tenwick, chief executive of talent management solutions company StepStone, said the impact of such legislation is to force international companies to question further investment in Europe.
The company is “well financed” to come to the aid of ailing recruiters, according to its managing director Andy Hogarth, who told Recruiter the company is in talks with a “handful” of agencies.
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Parity Group is continuing to reduce overhead costs to counter the challenging economic environment.
In its interim management statement covering the period from 1 January 2009 to 13 May 2009, the company says its priorities are to broaden its client base and to improve margins.
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More than one in four of us are finding it so hard to switch off from work that we cannot resist using a mobile device such as a laptop before bed, according to a survey by data protection specialist CREDANT Technologies.