Recruitment giant Hays has seen revenues rise on the back of strong international growth but plummeting public sector recruitment activity has seen UK net fees fall, according to preliminary results for the year ended 30 June 2011.
The group’s results reveal:
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Executive search firm CPB Partners has launched.
Founded by partners Simon Clark, Nicholas Purdue and Gerard Bland, the firm will focus on life and health insurance/reinsurance, general insurance, pensions, employee benefits and outsourcing markets.
Cities where as many as one in four young people are not in education, employment or training (NEET) have been identified in research by The Work Foundation and the Private Equity Foundation.
Videos submitted by candidates will become increasingly common across the UK recruitment sector, with many traditional organisations using the medium within three years, according to the HR director of Moneysupermarket.com.
The number of new City jobs rose 6% month-on-month in June, according to the latest Morgan McKinley Employment Monitor.
However, the monitor also reveals compared to the same time last year, there was a 2% decrease in job opportunities across the City this June, while there was also a 2% decrease in new jobs quarter-on-quarter.
Gemini Search, a creative, advertising, digital and media specialist recruitment agency, launched in London on Monday [11 July].
Founded and headed by managing director Alia Majed, it is backed by James Caan as part of the Hamilton Bradshaw portfolio of recruitment companies.
More than half of UK firms do not favour a voluntary code of conduct ensuring diverse talent, according to research from finance staffing specialist Search Consultancy.
The number of IT jobs increased 18% year-on-year in Q2, according to research from specialist IT recruitment website CWJobs.co.uk.
The research shows London now makes up 33% of all UK IT jobs advertised with over 37,000 London-based IT jobs advertised in the second quarter of 2011 alone, with developer roles now making up 39% of all jobs advertised in the UK.
Online job matching and assessment solution HireMatch.me is to launch next month.
The tool, currently in beta testing, ‘rewards’ employers for improving the candidate experience as job hunters use the HireMatch.me system.
PCG, the association representing freelance working in the UK, has launched a guide to ‘working with freelancers’ in advance of October’s introduction of the Agency Workers Regulations (AWR).