In the first quarter of 2011 nine recruitment agencies were put into administration, a 31% drop on the previous quarter and 59% less than the same period in the previous year, according to exclusive research by Recruiter magazine.
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BT’s Openreach division is seeking 200 ex-armed forces personnel to help deliver super-fast fibre broadband.
The new recruits are due to start their new jobs in May as part of a mobile engineering workforce, which will help to deploy super-fast broadband to homes and businesses across the UK.
Executive search and interim management partnership Eton Bridge Partners has appointed Louise Chaplin as consultant in its interim practice.
Chaplin joins the interim finance team from Ashridge Business School, where she has spent the last seven years partnering with FTSE 100 companies and high-growth organisations to develop leadership and management solutions.
The number of confirmed job offers in financial services fell month-on-month by 3.5% in April, according to data from City pre-employment screening company Powerchex.
The data also shows that compared with April last year, there was a 3% rise in the number of job offers made.
Political unrest in Libya is taking its toll on online recruitment activity, according to international oil & gas jobsite OilCareers.com.
The jobsite’s data shows visits from jobseekers interested in working in the country dropped in April to 13, from 4,149 visits in April 2010.
Skills for Care is inviting tenders from employers across the social care sector for projects that promote and support adult social care apprenticeships.
The social care training provider will work with employers committed to develop their work in up to seven areas:
Workplace assessment specialist Talent Q has appointed Chris Holdsworth to the new position of group chief executive officer.
US executive search consultancy Coleman Lew & Associates has made two new additions to its top management team.
The Charlotte-based, South Carolina firm has appointed Kenneth D Carrick Jr as the new president. Charles E Lew will serve as the new chairman.
Pinnacle Staffing Group has suspended trading of its shares on AIM with immediate effect pending clarification of its financial position, at the request of the public sector recruiter.
A new report suggests that an overwhelming majority of workers from some minority races believe they were treated unfairly by recruitment agencies when seeking work.