Kate Bleasdale, HCL
International expansion into Australia, Canada and the Middle East has helped Healthcare Locums increase revenue by 5% in its final results for the year ended 31 December 2009.
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The administrators of workforce management firm Albany, which collapsed in February, have sold the company’s Asia Pacific arm.
John Alexander, a partner at Crater Backer Winter, told Recruiter that the sale had been concluded on 12 March, although he could not reveal the sum involved.
While revenues are down at international recruiter Empresaria, the group has witnessed an encouraging end to last year and start to 2010, in its results for the year ended 31 December 2009.
The group’s results reveal:
Most City financial professionals and lawyers (73%) think that they have performed above their current role and want recognition for what they have achieved, according to research from finance and accountancy recruiter Joslin Rowe.
Exceptional recruitment managers are needed in difficult times to attract the best people and reduce costs, whether they be in-house or working for recruitment providers on behalf of the company, according to speakers at a conference in London yesterday.
The service sector grew at its fastest rate for two years in September, according to the latest CIPS/Markit index.
The index posted a reading of 55.3, up from 54.1 in August, marking a fifth month in a row of growth.
More positive signs in the economy have persuaded 27% of workers to look for a new job, according to research from Badenoch & Clark.
The research shows that the figures jump to 40% for London employees. Under 24-year-olds (42%) are most keen to move on.
News that a third of RBS Coutts Singapore staff have resigned en masse is a positive sign that confidence is returning to the market, according to the managing director of international banking and finance recruiter Selby Jennings
Recruitment is one of the UK business sectors that could benefit when the EU Services Directive comes into force at the end of the year.
And UK companies operating in the services sector - such as recruitment companies - should take advantage of new opportunities, business minister Ian Lucas has urged.
Stephen Sharp