The IT Job Board, www.theitjobboard.co.uk, has appointed Jamie Bowler as its new head of marketing.
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Hays is predicting an increase in Canadian, Australian and New Zealand teachers in the UK, despite changes to immigration legislation.
Recruiters from a variety of sectors are hopeful rather than optimistic over the government’s £200bn bank bailout.
Paul Venables
One in five recruiters will go to the wall in the next two years, according to Hays’ finance director Paul Venables
Smith: past year fantastic despite difficult market conditions
A quarter of the Sunday Times 100 fastest growing companies are recruitment agencies.
Three agencies are in the top 10 with Bristol-based JJ Fox coming fourth having reported £9m in sales last year, up 165.6%.
The Recruitment and Employment Confederation (REC) and KPMG’s Report on Jobs recorded a fifth consecutive month of decline in agencies’ temporary and contract billings, with permanent placements reaching 28.6 index points (with 50 indicating no change) in December.
Following a review of its future recruitment needs, BAE Systems has appointed Alexander Mann Solutions (AMS) to provide specialist permanent recruitment services for its UK business.
Professional and manager vacancies continuing to drop, although more organisations expect to recruit in the next quarter, according to a survey from global recruiter Antal.
The West Midlands continues to be battered by rising unemployment due to the decline in manufacturing, according to PricewaterhouseCoopers’ analysis of recent unemployment figures.
Yesterday, the Office for National Statistics announced that unemployment in the UK had hit 2.4m.