Almost four in 10 local authorities have increased permanent staff member headcount over the last two years, according to new research.
The research, conducted under the Freedom of Information Act by PeoplePerHour.com, also reveals the number of freelancers employed by local councils had risen by over a third during the same two-year period.
Hays Education warns that removing the requirement for teachers to do a university-based course completely could be counter-productive and undervalue the teaching profession.
International recruiter Empresaria’s Headway brand has now taken a majority shareholding in Hungary-based recruiter Summers Group.
Web-based applicant tracking systems Candidate Manager has appointed Anil Aphale as business development manager for the South of the UK.
Aphale was previously international business development manager at TipTopJobs.com.
Chancellor George Osborne should deliver a Budget that “revolutionises” trading conditions for Britain’s smaller firms, according to the Forum of Private Business.
The not-for-profit organisation’s main Budget recommendations calls on the coalition to:
Global recruiter Manpower and solutions and software development systems provider Microsoft are developing joint programmes to help fight youth unemployment.
The Memorandum of Understanding sees Microsoft and Manpower work with other partners to develop a training curriculum for young entrepreneurs to foster leading-edge technical, organisational and business development skills.
Allowing employers to asking women about having children, or how they will fit their career around their current children, would be unwelcome and counterproductive, according to Maggie Berry, managing director of IT job board and diversity recruiter Women in Technology.
Following yesterday’s announcement by the chancellor of an enterprise zone covering the Royal Docks in the East End of London, the mayor of Newham has warned that the zone must avoid the mistakes of enterprise zones in the past.
Sir Robin Wales says: “We have led the call for an enterprise zone in this area, as a key foundation of our post-Olympics legacy.
Recruitment-to-recruitment firm People Prospect Solutions has appointed Rebecca Bowring-Kingman as recruitment director.
Bowring-Kingman joins from Robert Half International where she was a South Coast branch manager.
Her new role sees her recruit across the South Coast, London and Home Counties.
Business-to-business marketing agency McDonald Butler has launched a recruitment portal powered by online recruitment platform MyPeopleBiz.
The portal aims enable firms to extend their scope in the market to social media and external referrals, while the portal also offers fixed-fee recruiting.