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Irish recruitment firm Sigmar plans to employ 50 new staff over the next 12 months with immediate plans to hire 16 recruitment consultants in the coming weeks.
Data from People 1st, the sector skills council for hospitality and tourism, reveals there are “significant” opportunities ahead for highly skilled workers in the sector.
The data from People 1st’s State of the Nation 2011 reveals the need for 638,000 additional jobs by 2017 of which 69,000 are managerial posts.
Half of all women have found the transition from permanent to interim work difficult, according to research from Interim Women, the business network for women working as Interim Managers.
Research found that it took several months or more to find work, with some new interims taking up to a year.
With just over a week to go, many recruiters still haven’t set up a technological infrastructure to handle the Agency Workers Regulations (AWR).
Denise Matthews
Independent recruiters are choosing to use virtual offices as a London base for their businesses rather than have the expense of taking on the lease of an office space.
A mobility consultant within Coca-Cola has attacked the performance of recruitment consultants and compared them unfavourably with in-house recruiters.
Recruitment activity in the UAE has improved in Q1 2011 as compared to the same period over last year, reports Emirati news website Emirates 24|7.
According to Peter Greaves, director, head of financial markets at McArthur Murray, Dubai, “15% new jobs”, were created in Q1.
Multi-sector recruiter Xact Placements has appointed Shawn Mirza as software development recruitment consultant.
Mirza’s background includes recruitment, financial sales and software development and he also holds a Masters in Management Information Systems.
Meanwhile, Keri Wheatley joins as marketing recruitment consultant from Office Angels in Reading.
Technology staffing specialist Longbridge Technology has appointed Kingsley Geddes as senior consultant.
Managing director Jonathan Cox says: “Kingsley joins us from Greythorn and DP Connect, and previously worked in stockbroking and F/X. He will identify outstanding candidates for our financial software clients and continue the growth of Longbridge Technology.”