Business process outsourcing (BPO) and professional services company The Capita Group today issued its interim management statement covering the 10 months to 31 October 2009.
According to the statement, Capita performed well in the second half of this year. “Businesses across the group are trading robustly and the market for outsourcing remains active,” it continues.
A seamless global offering is the missing essential ingredient in outsourced recruitment services, creating a gap that is being sorely felt by current clients of recruitment process outsourcing (RPO) firms.
Pub operator JD Wetherspoon is to create 10,000 jobs over the next five years through the opening of 250 new pubs.
The firm plans to recruit management positions alongside jobs for bar and kitchen staff, investing £250m in the new locations which include Sheffield, Livingston, Leominster, Otley, New Malden, Liverpool, Haverfordwest and Newcastle, over five years.
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The Recruitment Employment Confederation (REC) has submitted its official response to draft regulations on the Agency Workers’ Directive (AWD), ahead of the close of the government’s consultation on how equal treatment measures for temporary workers can best be implemented in the UK.
Key areas covered in the REC response to the draft regulations include:
Former chief operating officer of FiveTen Asia Pacific, Niall Hamill, today announced the acquisition of Stirling Andersen, a leading insurance recruiter based in Sydney.
The brand is the first to join the newly created Andersen Partnership, as mentioned in recruiter.co.uk (17 September), which will specialise in the insurance, banking, accounting and technology sectors.
Tower Hamlets Council’s children’s services department has appointed education recruiter Navigate to find a new director of children, schools and families services across the London borough.
Transport and logistics recruiter Driver Hire is to introduce free Joint Approvals Unit for Periodic Training (JAUPT) approved Certificate of Professional Competence (CPC) training this month.
Fortunes for UK recruiters look much brighter in 2010, according to new research from industry analyst Plimsoll.
Provider of .NET web content management systems Sitecore’s CMS platform has been chosen by jobsboard group Totaljobs Group.
Nigel Sterndale, chief product officer, Totaljobs Group, says: “Under the previous system, rollout of new products and content was costly, while the overall end-user experience was not helped by the inconsistent look and feel of our brand identity.