Despite a recruitment freeze, the Northern Ireland Civil Service’s headcount has grown by 1.1% in the past two years, according to BBC News.
The service employed 27,701 people at the start of the year, 300 more than two years ago.
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Tilly Palvig Ostroff Gerver has joined financial and legal recruiter Square Mile Connections.
Palvig Ostroff Gerver will be based in London, working in the company’s banking and finance division.
Dara O Briain hosting last year’s Recruiter Awards for Excellence
Pharmaceutical, medical, engineering and technical recruitment agency NonStop Recruitment has appointed Danbro as a preferred supplier of accounting and payroll services to candidates.
Business secretary Vince Cable has signed an agreement to strengthen UK-Singapore economic ties in a number of sectors.
The document, also signed by Singaporean trade and industry minster Lim Hng Kiang, names urban solutions, clean technology, information and communication technology, education and digital services as priority sectors for business development.
Only three months after controversial draft legislation was issued for consultation, a bill has been passed levying foreign businesses as much as £14,000 a year for each non-Chinese member of staff, reports The Daily Telegraph.
Australian retailer Woolworths has announced the creation of 10,000 jobs across Australia and New Zealand, reports the Sydney Morning Herald.
The plans announced 2 November include the opening of 117 new stores in the next few years and a distribution centre in Western Sydney due to employ 350 people.
The US private sector added nearly 10% more jobs than predicted last month, according to a report produced by outsourcing solutions provider Automatic Data Processing (ADP), reports Reuters.
Economists predicted the sector would add 101,000 jobs in October, but 110,000 were eventually created.
Manpower Group believes greater emphasis must be placed on helping the local workforce up-skill to meet industry needs.
A recent Manpower survey of employers executed by TNS Global Market Research placed Vietnamese workers among the least productive regionally, with around half rating the workforce poor or fair.
Nearly two-thirds of Microsoft Dynamics software professionals are unhappy with their current salary, according to a survey by JAM Recruitment.