Hong Kong continues to attract companies looking to gain a foothold in Asia, but talented professionals are in short supply, according to a Michael Page report.
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As I write my first article of 2014 for Recruiter’s City page, I look forward with a sense of optimism to a year in which transactions will be a more regular feature and confidence will continue to grow. Recent plc results point towards a firming in the UK market, which echoes the general sentiment of businesses I talk to.
Joost Kreulen, chief executive of international specialist staffing group Empresaria, says he is “encouraged by the progress of the group”, as the company issues a trading statement ahead of the release of its final results for 2013 on 11 March 2014.
The marine division of Lloyds Register, the risk management and safety assurance organisation, is using a training film as part of a recruitment drive to appoint global experts for the UK’s largest maritime industry centre.
Dublin-based global pharmaceutical company Aspen Pharma has created 42 new jobs at its Citywest European Operations Centre in Ireland’s capital.
Nearly half of Britons think of their current job as a stopgap, according to research from job site Monster.co.uk.
The news that car manufacturing in the UK has hit a six-year high of 1.5m vehicles, and that engineering firm Dyson plans to hire 3,000 engineers by 2015, has once again brought the issue of skill shortages in the UK’s manufacturing and engineering sectors to the force.
A leading business educator and former HR executive at Cadbury-Schweppes has warned senior in-house resourcing professionals against accepting “the tyranny of experts” when it comes to understanding and driving a social media strategy.
The South African labour minister has told a conference in Pretoria that she hopes 2014 will buck the 2013 trend for an increasing number of non-permanent jobs, reports the South African Government News Agency.
Nearly half of Taiwan employers say hiring activity is stronger this year than in 2013, according to the ‘2014 Michael Page Salary & Employment Forecast for Taiwan’, produced in association with the European Chamber of Commerce Taiwan.