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.
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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.
Francoise Gri, ManpowerGroup president of Southern Europe, will leave her role effective 1 January 2013, with a successor to be announced “in due course”, the company says.
Cheryl Jones has stepped down from her role as chair of the board of staffing group Impellam, “following the successful turnaround and transformational restructuring of the Group”, a company statement notes.
New recruitment industry apprenticeships could be ready by February, Skills CFA, the skills and training charity driving the project, tells Recruiter.