Show your colleagues and employees how much you appreciate them this Valentine’s Day by bringing lurve into the workplace.
National recruitment group HR GO thinks there’s no better way to raise spirits and get the whole team engaged in a little office fun than to hold a themed Valentine’s Day.
The Impellam Group, a provider of staffing solutions and outsourced people-related services, has seen a decline in turnover in its preliminary results for the year ended 31 December 2009.
Its results reveal:
International oil and gas jobs board OilCareers has opened an office in North America.
The new office in Houston, Texas will serve the US and Canada.
The firm adds that it has also launched an international candidate attraction programme to increase its users from 640,000.
Around 5,200 financial jobs are to be created in Doha, Qatar, according to research from financial recruiter Kinsey Allen International.
The research shows that the financial sector will employ 20,100 people by the end of the year. In 2006 the sector employed just 6,200 people.
Recruiters of both temporary and permanent workers will need to prepare for ’fit note’ legislation, according to John Hayes, partner at the London employment department of law firm Irwin Mitchell.
Middle management contingency firm Argyll Scott International has appointed two consultants to its London operation.
Recruitment processes take too long, according to research from online recruitment marketplace TalentPuzzle.
The research shows that 86% of 250 business owners and HR staff would like to spend less time dealing with recruitment processes and agencies, especially as 88% want to make a significant number of permanent hires over the next six months.
Global technical recruitment company, NES Group, is advising candidates to refrain from giving details of their hobbies and interests in CVs.
Recruitment activity has risen by an average of 6% in the last five months, according to new research by pre-employment screening firm Powerchex.
The number of business insolvencies is declining, according to the latest Insolvency Index from information services firm Experian.
The total number of insolvencies fell by 15.1% in February compared to the same month last year - from 2,160 in February 2009 to 1,834 in February 2010, bringing the rate of insolvencies down from 0.11% to 0.10%.