The pay gap is widening between male and female accountants over 45, according to a study from financial recruiter Robert Half.
The study shows that the average basic salary for a male chartered accountant over 45 is £98,400, over 60% more than their female colleagues’ average of £60,500.
Following the collapse of Albany’s UK arm, the joint administrators are close to selling off a number of the group’s foreign businesses.
Multi-sector recruiter the Change Group of Companies witnessed a 58% increase in profits for the first two months of 2010 on the same period in 2009.
With proposed cuts to the armed forces’ budget resulting in a 20% reduction in service personnel numbers over the next six years, military professionals entering civvy street can take advantage of a new campaign aimed at finding ex-military professionals into new jobs.
Multi-sector recruiter XACT Placements has promoted Louise Seymour from temporary telemarketing assistant to a permanent role as recruitment consultant.
Medical recruiter DRC Locums has won a supply contract to provide medical locum services to the North-West CCA member Trusts.
Apprenticeship schemes are not just for younger workers - adults can also learn new skills valuable to the UK economy, according to Perspective, an authority on distributed learning and apprentice training.
Most jobseekers would leave their current job if offered more money, according to a survey from commercial recruiter Tate.
US executive search firm Korn/Ferry International has seen fee revenues increase in its Q3 results (September to December).
Fee revenues were $146.8m (£97.2m), compared to $136.2m in the same quarter last year.
HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) has altered PAYE regulations to allow for the use of electronic (‘e’) P60s from 6 April.
Karen Thomson, associate director of policy, research and strategic visibility at the Institue of Payroll Professionals (IPP), says: “The IPP has lobbied for many years for HMRC to permit employers to issue eP60s to employees rather than the paper version.