Multi-sector recruiter Adecco has seen improved revenues in its third quarter results.
Adecco recorded revenues of €3.7bn (£3.3m), down 27% on the same period last year, while gross profit was €658m, down 28%.
Earnings before interest, tax and amortisation (EBITA) were €135m, down 47% on Q3 2008.
Insurance group Aviva has appointed hyphen as its managed service provider for all general and professional contract workers in the UK.
Global recruiter Hays is seeing signs of stability in the UK market, according to Bob Lawson, Hays chairman.
Jobsite has announced its TV adverts featuring Max Beesley will return to screens from 4 January.
Gerardo Del Guercio, a technical solutions architect, at the UK Border Agency International Group, has become the first Parity IT contractor to be awarded an MBE by the Prince of Wales.
Del Guercio, placed by Parity Resources, picked up his award on 27 November for services to the creation and implementation of major IT systems.
HR professionals must prepare for a new world in which their organisation will have to overcome the powerful forces of half-dead, half-alive zombies, according to PA Consulting Group’s book The zombie economy: leadership in times of uncertainty.
Former director of new business development at the Adecco Group UK & Ireland and ex-managing director of Office Angels, Paul Jacobs, has launched Loveworklife.
The year 2010 will be the year of the skiver, according to Jonathan Whittaker, employment partner at law firm SAS Daniels.
Southampton-based shipping specialist SDW Recruitment Group has completed its phase 1 expansion.
Founder and managing director Steve Wyeth is expecting further expansion over the next two quarters. He also announced the appointment of five new members of the team: James Chandler, Jason Cook, Simon Cook, Laura Neilson and Jock Bindloss, with a sixth person starting in March.
Ian Muff
IT and pharma recruiter Vine Resources has appointed Ian Muff as a recruitment consultant in the Pharma sector.
Muff previously worked at property recruitment agency Macdonald & Co.