While Scotland’s economic recovery continued in July, Scottish employment levels remained flat, according to latest Bank of Scotland PMI report.
The report shows that following five months of job creation, Scottish firms reported that staffing levels were unchanged during July.
The index posted a reading 53.0 in July, up from 52.9 in June.
International recruiter Randstad has reached agreement with Japanese recruiter FujiStaff to take a majority stake in the company.
Randstad is to take a 44.6% stake in the firm, in addition to the 20.5% stake it already holds.
British Gas is seeking ex-servicemen and women to join its ranks.
US executive search firm MJS Executive Search has completed a successful assignment for online food delivery order service SeamlessWeb with the appointment of Ryan Scott as chief marketing officer.
Scott joins Seamlessweb from DIRECTV, where he was director, interactive marketing, customer communications and social media.
Founded by Mark Conway and Deren Zaghlul, the firm has six business divisions - advisers, management, resource planning and management information, executive search, interim & consultancy and business development.
The firm also supplies interim consultants on a contract basis.
Recruiters across the country are bracing themselves for unemployment levels to break 10% in more than half of UK regions.
Recruiters are certain to face Employment Tribunals (ETs) over misuse of social networking sites, PwC has warned.
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.