Procurer of temporary agency labour in the UK, de Poel, increased turnover by 43% in 2010 to reach £299m.
The company also retained profits for that year of £2.6m in de Poel Holdings.
The company also posted a turnover of £140m in the first five months of this year, an increase of 26% on the same time last year.
SociView is a new social media mapping tool that allows organisations to gain a clear picture of their social media activity and presence, and to report on its effectiveness via a single dashboard.
Chief executives, PRs and marketers fear opening up their organisations’ social media sites for comment because they don’t want to lose control of the message, according to Matthew Jeffery, head of talent acquisition and global talent brand at 3D design software provider Autodesk.
PwC has appointed Gaenor Bagley to lead the firm’s people strategy and HR function.
Bagley takes up the role of head of people from 1 July having spent most of her career in tax, although she originally trained as an auditor.
She has held various people and leadership roles and was most recently leader of PwC’s private equity and M&A tax practice.
Expansion into Indonesia, Taiwan and Germany is on the horizon in H2 as international recruiter Robert Walters reports “strong” results driven by its international business for for the second quarter ended 30 June 2011.
The group’s results reveal:
International recruiter Hays has seen “good and broad-based” net fee growth buoyed by strong performance in its international operations, according to a trading update for the quarter ended 30 June.
The update reveals:
Growth in net fees for the quarter ended 30 June 2011 (Q4)
(versus the same period last year)
More than eight in 10 students (86%) rate their university highly in wanting to prepare them for work, according to research from skills self-help specialist My Performance Pitstop.
The research also shows 34% rate their university a first class nine or 10 in their employability focus, while 84% of current students also think employers value their degree above work experience.
International IT recruiter InterQuest the specialist IT recruitment Group has launched IQ Resourcing for the retail sector.
IQ Resourcing, formerly known as InterQuest UK serves the UK retail and leisure sector.
The division will be led by divisional manager David Wingate.
There’s still time for recruiters submit their views for the latest Osborne Clarke/Recruiter Q3 2011 ‘M&A in the Recruitment Sector’ survey.
The forward-looking survey is designed to assess how mergers and acquisitions (M&As) are viewed within the recruitment sector over the next three months.
