Technology, finance and healthcare recruiter Arrows Group has joined Royal Bank of Scotland’s Enterprise Finance Guarantee (EFG) scheme.
The scheme provided working capital to Arrows Group to help it expand it specialist healthcare practice, which has experienced 100% growth over the past two years.
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Industry bodies have given a positive response to the government’s launch of the Employment White Paper ‘Building Britain’s recovery: Achieving full employment’.
Accountancy, HR and procurement recruiter Volante Hobbs has been appointed by public sector government procurement partner Buying Solutions to be a supplier for temporary and permanent staff to the NHS.
In-house recruitment posts in December rose for the seventh month in a row and were up on the same month in 2008, according to the latest Aspen Partners Index.
The index, from Aspen Partners International - the research and benchmarking arm of in-house recruitment and executive search staffing firm Napier Wolf Group, ended 2009 on 68 points, up two points on the same period in 2008.
The former finance director of Morgan Hunt who launched Day Webster in December says now is the perfect time to set up a recruitment business.
Four out of five small businesses are reluctant to take on permanent staff, but prefer shorter-term hiring and outsourcing to freelancers, according to a new survey.
The survey of 530 small businesses by PeoplePerHour.com, a website that matches freelancers and jobs, found only one in four said the recession had had a dramatic impact.
Multi-sector recruiter Premiere People has won a place on the Buying Solutions framework agreement for the supply of non-medical, non-clinical, temporary, interim and fixed-term staff to the NHS and public sector in the UK.
The impact of the recession on the UK’s workforce has been much greater than headline unemployment figures would indicate, according to the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD).
The research shows that 1.31m people were made redundant during the recession - double the net fall in employment and equal to 4.4% of people in work before the downturn.
HR recruiter Digby Morgan has been awarded a place on the Buying Solutions non-medical non-clinical framework agreement.
