Graduate careers website Wikijob experienced its largest ever volume of traffic for the month of October.
Unique users last month totalled just under 315,000, up 90,000 on the total for October 2010.
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The Association of Recruitment Consultancies (ARC) has announced the appointment of Jess Watts to its executive committee.
Watts is chief executive of Gi Group UK, an industrial-focused recruitment firm previously known as right4staff Group.
Workforce management software provider Allocate Software has announced revenue to the year ending May was up 37% to £30.1m.
The group’s health operation, which generates 77% of total revenues, gained the custom of 26 NHS Trusts in the year, meaning a total of 145 Trusts are on the books of its HealthRoster company among a total of 450 companies.
Prime People, the parent company of recruitment consultancies Macdonald & Company and Harper Craven, has announced a 23% rise in profit before tax when compared to the same period the previous year.
The figure of £500k is for the six months ending September.
Resource Solutions Group (RSG) has announced it has appointed Danbro as a preferred supplier of accounting and payroll services to their candidates.
Commerce, professional services and public/not-for-profit recruiter Axon Resourcing has hired Lucy Tavender as senior consultant, concentrating on the permanent industry and commerce market across the North of the UK.
Two-thirds of employees believe that working hours will be far more flexible 25 years in the future than the current status quo, according to a survey conducted by office and secretarial recruiter Office Angels.
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The head of resourcing at G4S, one of the world’s largest private employers, is exploring the possibility of collaborating with other employers to help jobseekers.
Ferry operator P&O Ferries has told Recruiterthat the ‘re-flagging’ of two ships under either the Bermudan or Bahamas flag will protect staff rather than put their jobs in jeopardy.
Bristol IT recruitment agency Redrock Consulting has appointed Ben Halligan as senior recruitment manager.
He will work particularly closely with the digital media team at Redrock.
Halligan has 14 years’ sales experience within the IT recruitment industry, including at SThree, Redstone Communications and the Daily Mail Group.