Claims made in a national newspaper that the government’s Universal Jobmatch site is to be scrapped because of serious problems, including fake or repeat job vacancies, are “wild speculation and just incorrect”, according to the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP).
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The Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) has issued more than 2.6m checks on employees in the financial year 2013-14 (to date), nearly 600,000 fewer than the previous recorded period.
NP Education, the London-based education recruitment specialist, will officially change its name to ITN Mark Education from 31 March 2014.
Capita, the provider of business process management and integrated professional support service solutions, has been selected by John Lewis to provide its online contact centre.
Hiring intentions across Brazil and Mexico, South America’s two biggest economies, remain positive, according to recruitment professionals, despite HSBC revising its forecast downward.
ewi recruitment, the international construction and engineering recruiter, has opened an office in Southampton.
Multi-sector recruiter Resourcing Group has opened an office branch in Brighton.
The chairman of global specialist recruitment company Hydrogen Group says he is hopeful the company’s strategy of investing for the medium term will begin to pay off, starting this year.
Gross profits (GP) at international staffing business SThree rose by 9%, according to an interim management statement covering the quarter ended 2 March 2014 (Q1). This compares with a decline of 5% in Q4 2013.
A multi-million pound city deal will create 8,900 jobs for Sunderland, strengthening the foundations of economic growth for future generations, deputy prime minister Nick Clegg and minister for cities Greg Clark said on Friday (14 March).