Job board reed.co.uk has appointed of 15 new members of staff across its sales, technical and product development teams.
Martin Warnes, managing director at reed.co.uk, says: “Over the last two years, the reed.co.uk team has worked extremely hard to grow the business, win new clients and establish ourselves as the UK’s market leader.
IT recruiter Outsource UK has released positive year-on-year growth figures for the period May 2008 to May 2009.
The firm’s turnover increased by 52%, from £11m to £18m, while company’s profit rose by 16% over the same period.
There has been no ‘material change in economic or market conditions’, IT recruiter Parity Group says in an interim management statement covering 1 July 2009 to 12 November 2009.
The statement says that overall trading during the second half of 2009 has been in line with management expectations.
Accountancy, financial services, insurance and legal recruiter Heat Recruitment has opened a new office in central Bristol.
The firm is looking to expand the team at the former Norwich Union offices on Victoria Street, Bristol.
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Provider of talent acquisition and workforce compliance and diversity solutions Peopleclick has announced that it has added several new clients.
New clients include Pepco Holdings, Pike Electric, Volkswagen UK, GENCO Supply Chain Solutions, the University of Pennsylvania Health Systems and Steria Recruitment.
Half of the UK’s workers have taken measures to aid their company’s survival in the recession, according to new research from insolvency trade body R3.
The definition of pay tops a list of key areas that will be discussed today between the Recruitment Employment Confederation and with Pat McFadden, the minister for Business, Innovation and Skills, ahead of Friday’s AWD consultation.
Areas to be discussed include:
· the definition of pay
· temp to perm fees
Better GDP figures and an emergency UK budget following an election lead are among centre for economics and business research (CEBR)’s economic predictions for 2010.
The CEBR predicts:
1) An election and a new government.
International recruiter Hydrogen says it is seeing “modest improvement” across some sectors and “signs of stabilisation” in a pre-close trading update for the financial year ended 31 December 2009.
The statement also says that Hydrogen has seen solid performances in its contract business as well as early signs of increased activity across permanent business in Q4.