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Engineering, science, technology and professional services recruiter Matchtech Group is beginning to reap the rewards of investment in sector and geographic diversification, according to a pre-close trading update for the year ended 31 July 2011.
Private equity specialist Graphite Capital has provided equity funding to enable education recruiter Teaching Personnel to buy supply teacher staffing specialist Protocol Education.
Graphite had backed the £45m management buy-out (MBO) of Teaching Personnel in July 2010.
Multi-sector recruiter Search Consultancy has appointed Shona McKenzie as account director for the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games.
McKenzie will lead a specialist recruitment team tasked with finding over 1,000 jobs for the games.
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“A massive amount of hiring” in the future will come from social referrals, according to social media expert Bill Boorman.
A report from Forfás, Ireland’s policy advisory board for enterprise, trade, science, technology and innovation, has suggested that the computer games industry could create an additional 2,500 new jobs in the country in the next two years, reports the Irish Times.
Initio International, the group owning recruitment consultancy Longbridge, has announced the acquisition of legal, secretarial and PA recruiter King & Toben and generalist recruiter Contact Recruitment.
Both businesses will now operate under the Longbridge brand.
As Adecco follows Randstad in expanding its presence within the US, further consolidation in this “fragmented” market is likely to continue, according to Chris Burger, a specialist Adecco analyst at Helvea Equity Research.
SSI has turned to recruitment software provider networx to help fill up to 1,000 new jobs at the industrial steel giant’s Redcar plant.
Networx has been working alongside SSI to create a bespoke recruitment management system and online application process.
The number of households with no one in employment is on the rise, according to official figures.
The figures from the Office for National Statistics reveal that last year there were three areas across the UK where more than three out
of every 10 households had no one in work.
The regions were Liverpool (31.9%), Nottingham (31.6%) and Glasgow City (30.7%).