StepStone Solutions has brought out a new version of its i-GRasp e-recruitment system and says it has responded to customers’ demands for features that will increase productivity and reduce operating and IT costs in the emergence from recession.
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The ReThink Group has seen revenues rise with ‘improved’ demand for its permanent recruitment services in its final results for the year ended 31 December 2009.
The group’s results reveal:
Multi-sector recruiter WSS Recruitment is moving to larger premises in Sunderland city centre.
The firm adds that it is to employ more direct office staff within the next two months.
Australia’s unemployment rate remained at 5.4% in April, according to the Australian Bureau of Statistics.
Multi-sector recruiter Eximius Group has launched Eximius Front Office.
US job creation has hit its highest levels since 2008, according to Gallup.
Based on 16,395 US employees’ self-reports, the Gallup job creation index for May improved to +7, up steadily this year and a total of eight points since January, with 28% hiring and 21% firing workers.
It cannot be denied that the growth in recruitment process outsourcing (RPO) (Recruiter, 9 June, ’Evolution of the species’) represents a threat to the continued employment of some within the industry, but what is often missed when considering outsourcing is the opportunity that it presents to enhance the roles and contribution levels of the professional recruiters within the organisation.
A Cardiff gangmaster business has been convicted for operating as a gangmaster without a licence at Abertillery Magistrates Court, Gwent. Recruitment Solutions Wales, operating from 2 Alexandra Gate, Ffordd Pengam, Rover Way, Cardiff, was sentenced to pay a fine and costs of £1,615.
James Kilbane, co-founder of Irish recruitment group Grafton, has passed away following a battle with illness. Kilbane founded the Grafton Employment Group in 1982. He was joined one year later by Ken Belshaw and together they then opened their first office in Dublin. The company has since expanded into an international recruitment network spanning 70 offices in 16 countries.
The unemployment rate in the US fell from 9.7% to 9.5% in June, according to the US Department of Labor.
The number of people in non-farm jobs across the US economy fell by 125,000 during the month.