Technical recruiter Matchtech Group has announced increased revenues in its preliminary results for the year ended 31 July 2009.
Revenue was up 4% to £269.6m (2008: £258.8m), while net fee income (NFI) dropped 9% to £30.3m (2008: £33.2m), with H1 up 8% and H2 down 23%.
Operating profit dropped to £11.6m from £13.8m in 2008 and net debt was cut to £1.2m (2008: £3.1m).
Tesco is launching a new recruitment scheme to put its staff’s unemployed family and friends in temporary Christmas jobs.
The retailer is creating 6,000 temporary jobs through the scheme, according to a statement released today (12 October). Almost 20% of Tesco employees have a friend or family member who has been made unemployed in the last 12 months.
Shane Morton - Group manager of legal recruiter Taylor Root, Dubai
From L-R: Paul Maxin ,Claire McCartney, Zach Miles, Samantha Rich
The UK retirement income system ranks fifth in the world, according to the Melbourne Mercer Global Pension Index.
Recruitment giant Adecco has completed its acquisition of technical recruiter Spring Group.
Kingsley Monk, murdered in his office
The man who murdered the director of a recruitment company and held three others hostage will serve at least 30 years in prison, a judge ruled on Friday.
Demand for management consultants is set to rise, according to an industry report. ‘Quarterly Trends in Consultancy’, produced by Sourceforconsulting.com, found that financial services companies expect to raise their spending on management consultants between now and April 2010, some by as much as 50%.
Multi-sector recruiter Absolute Recruitment UK has acquired Bralin Recruitment for an undisclosed sum.
Bralin Recruitment, which operates mainly in the commercial and industrial sectors, will service businesses in North Cheshire and South Lancashire, adding to Crewe-based Absolute’s success in South Cheshire and Staffordshire, explains managing director Jessica Marshall.
Thames Water may move its call centre to India, according to a report in the Daily Mail.
The company currently employs over 500 people in its call centre Swindon, however, the company has admitted that it is in discussion with a number of outsourcing firms.