A week after Royal Mail Group announced a major investment and the creation of 1,000 jobs in its parcels business, competitor business DPD, part of French postal group La Poste, has gone 500 better with the announcement of up to 1,500 full-time posts in the East Midlands.
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Supported by investment agency IDA Ireland, fund administration company Butterfield Fulcrum Group is to expand its Dublin operation with the creation of 150 new jobs.
Despite difficult market conditions, the UK recruitment industry grew by 4.3% in the financial year ending April 2012 to reach £25.7bn, according to the Recruitment & Employment Confederation’s (REC’s) Recruitment Industry Trends Survey 2011/12.
The third meeting of the UK-UAE Business Council in Dubai yesterday [5 November] heard from ministers from both countries that plans to increase trade volume between the states to £12bn by 2015 are on track.
Recruitment group Adecco called its Q3 2012 financial results ‘solid’, as revenues remained flat year-on-year at $5.3bn (£4.24bn), although this represented a 5% decline adjusted for constant currency.
Investors Hamilton Bradshaw Private Equity (HBPE) has acquired an 83% stake in independent financial recruiter SF Group, funding a management buy-out (MBO).
Specialist job site Totally Engineering Jobs has selected JobsiteWhite, a customisable ‘white label job board’ created by Jobsite, to power its website.
Newly-launched rec-to-rec firm SW6 Associates has been awarded an exclusive graduate contract to supply candidates to energy recruiter Spencer Ogden.
India’s Hindustan Petroleum Corporation (HPCL) is to take on 250 graduate trainee engineers in 2013 through the GATE (Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering) testing scheme.
With the US presidential election taking place tomorrow, the announcement made on Friday (2 November) – that the nation’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate of 7.9% remained steady between September and October – is being hailed as a boost for incumbent President Barack Obama.