execs4hire.com, an online service for consultants that places interim managers, has been launched.
The free resource currently provides recruiters with access to around 4,500 registered candidates regsitered at present, as well the ability to select and download up to 40 candidate CVs per month for free and post job details on the site for candidates to search and respond to.
Technical recruiter Harvey Nash has announed that it has reached an agreement with Fila & Myszel Associates (FMA) to merge their businesses under the Harvey Nash Alumni brand in Europe.
Technical, engineering and IT recruiter NES reported positive end-of-year results with a 24% increase in profits.
For the year ending 31 October, profits increased from £9.7m to £12m and revenues climbed 16% from £217.1m to £252.8m.
Recruiters are hopeful rather than optimistic following yesterday’s cut in interest rates.
The Bank of England has cut interest rates to their lowest levels ever. Recruiter went back to the three recruiters who were cautiously optimistic after the last cut in December.
Job vacancies for students graduating this summer have fallen by almost a fifth – and most have already been filled, according to a new report.
Market research firm High Fliers said many employers started scaling back graduate recruitment plans a year ago, and half had downgraded their targets for this year.
Headcount reductions in the first half of the year will be broader and deeper in the UK than those made last year, but skill shortages will continue to exist, according to a survey of HR decision makers by global recruiter Randstad.
Among the findings were:
The Isle of Man government’s Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) has launched a free, online social network to encourage Manx-born workers to return to the island.
Education agency Connex Education has launched what it believes to be the UK’s first and only education-specific recruitment process outsourcing (RPO) offering with its vendor neutral VMS (vendor managed solution).
Recruiters who spend a lot of time, effort and money on tendering for a scrapped framework agreement will not have to start all over again when tendering for the replacement framework agreement, NHS Purchasing and Supply Agency (PASA) has told Recruiter.
Faces recruitment & consultancy opened its doors this week, led by Steve Walters, who previously operated a retail recruitment franchise under the multi-sector Blue Monday banner.
The firm will recruit retail professionals at all levels, from the shop floor up to senior management.