While jobseekers can expect a slow start to the year in terms of new jobs and hiring intentions, 31 out of the 41 countries surveyed in the Manpower Employment Outlook Survey show a positive outlook for hiring in the first quarter of 2012.
The US, India and Japan are looking especially positive, according to the survey.
Demand for contract HR staff is down, despite permanent vacancies remaining steady, while demand is strong at technology firms, according to recruitment consultancy Badenoch & Clark.
Permanent salaries in HR were up 0.07% month-on-month in November, with vacancies rising by 0.52%. Contract salaries also rose marginally, by 0.03%, while vacancies dropped by 2.69%.
Green energy supply company SWALEC will open a new £7m training and operational training centre in Treforest in Wales, creating up to 250 jobs, which, a spokesperson for the company tells Recruiter, will include inexperienced hires.
Support services and construction group Interserve is working as a partner of the MoD, Help for Heroes and Royal British Legion-supported Defence Recovery Capability’s (DRC’s) Defence Employment and Opportunities Team.
The government needs to provide a more “business-friendly” regulatory environment to drive growth, according to Graeme Read, group managing director at global recruiter Antal International.
Renovo Employment Group has enlisted two welfare-to-work experts to manage and develop its distance based support services for programme providers.
The business has recently launched a 24-hour telephone and online career development product to support the new Work Programme enabling providers to outsource the monitoring candidate progress in their new role.
Global bank Standard Chartered Bank is seeking to recruit relationship managers as well as equities, commodities and compliance professionals for 1,000 new jobs in Asia.
Global recruiter ManpowerGroup president of corporate and government affairs, David Arkless, has begun his three-year tenure as vice-president of the International Confederation of Private Employment Agencies (Ciett).
Previous Ciett president, Horacio De Martini, ManpowerGroup South America regional director, has now retired at the end of his three-year term.
In the aftermath of the 50 votes to 49 defeat of US President Barack Obama’s jobs bill last night, details have emerged of which proposals will be scrapped and what will be saved, reports the San Francisco Chronicle.
Obama vowed to press ahead and seek to get individual provisions of his plan passed by Congress, saying: “Tonight’s vote is by no means the end of this fight.”
Jobseekers in the UAE report haven been ‘conned’ by fake recruitment agents and ‘bullied’ by bouncers employed by them, according to Emirates247.com.
A fake recruitment racket originating in Sharjah, the emirate directly North of Dubai, has now spread North to Ajman emirate, with offices re-opening or re-locating after being shut down following police complaints.