The number of new public sector roles has continued to fall in July, according to the latest Monster Employment Index.
The index posted a reading of 140 in July, down from 141 in June, while the number of public sector job opportunities saw a 15% decrease for the month.
Recruitment giant Adecco has achieved “solid” double-digit growth, according to its results for Q2.
The group’s results reveal:
Revenues of €5.2bn (£4.52m), up 11% on Q2 2010
EBITA of €199m, up 18% on Q2 2010
Operating income of €199m, up 21% on Q2 2010.
A third of UK leaders and one in five UK HR professionals rate the quality of leadership in their organisation as high, according to research from talent management consultancy, DDI, and the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD).
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Logistics recruiter DBC Group has launched Logistics Job Shop for the logistics and supply chain sectors.
Turnover at specialist jobs board Oil and Gas Job Search has reached £2.8m, an increase of 55% from the £1.8m of last year.
The company’s marketing director, John Roberts, says the board has seen a 40% growth in the number of adverts placed over the past year, and expects its 10,000 new user registrations a month to double over the next six-month period.
British dairy Nom has announced plans to double operations at its Shropshire site and create 350 new jobs as part of a £100-110m investment into the company.
The first phase of the expansion is due to take place over 12 months, creating 200 jobs, with a further 150 set to be created in the second phase of the development.
Confidence in the economy is returning, with just under half of companies in the UK planning to recruit permanent staff in the next three months, according to the Recruitment & Employment Confederation’s (REC’s) JobsOutlook research for October.
While 48% of companies expect their permanent staff headcount to remain the same over the next year, 42% say it will increase.
Business leaders should take personal responsibility to help those most disconnected from the labour market into work, and not rely on government programmes to do it for them, according to Emma Harrison, founder and chairman of international welfare-to-work and training company A4e.
The UK has twice as many recruitment professionals as a proportion of overall population than the US, according to Bullhorn’s TransAtlantic Recruitment 2011 report, surveying 50,000 recruiters across the two nations. UK recruiters work nearly an hour a day more than their US counterparts and gain better results.