The use of temporary agency workers in the UK hit a year high in August, data from de Poel has revealed.
The figures show that the number of hours worked by temporary agency workers increased by 27% compared with July and 19% compared with the same period in 2009.
The national press is upping the stakes in the recruitment advertising market, with the Financial Times the latest to undergo a relaunch in that area.
Independent executive jobs and career service, executivesontheweb.com, has launched an iPhone application following a recent surge in the use of its existing mobile platform eotw.mobi.
The free-to-download application allows candidates to use the executivesontheweb.com features without having to be registered with the main site.
The coalition government has been urged not to make students rethink a university education by taxing graduates twice.
Multi-sector recruiter McGregor Boyall has launched a new telecoms division.
The division is headed up by new recruit Faye Whitlock and will deal with both permanent and contract recruitment on a global basis but with a specific focus on EMEA.
More than 150 delegates attended Recruiter’s inaugural Smart Resourcing conference in London on 22 September
Specialist recruitment consultancy IntaPeople has appointed Simon Goldsworthy as business development and HR commercial director.
The new managing director of Broadbean Technology has got major plans for expanding the business, now best known for its job multi-posting service.
In this excerpt from an exclusive interview with Recruiter’s DeeDee Doke, Dan Martin outlined Broadbean’s future.
For the full story, see the 13 October issue of Recruiter.
Marketing and design staffing specialist Aquent’s permanent and search division has rebranded as a separate business called Firebrand in Europe, Asia and Australasia.
Firebrand has 10 offices in eight countries focusing entirely on permanent recruitment within online and traditional marketing, print and digital creative, digital production, communications, media, and account services.
UK leaders pale in comparison to their international counterparts in their effectiveness, according to research from the Kenexa Research Institute.
The survey of more than 29,000 employees in 21 countries found that India has the most effective leaders, while China, Russia, the US and Germany also ranked higher.
The UK came in at 17 out of the 21 countries surveyed.