Insurance intermediary Kwik Fit Insurance is on the hunt for 70 new members of staff to join its Uddingston call centre.
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Professional services firm KPMG is to increase its planned UK intake of graduates, school leavers and interns from 900 to over 1,000 for September 2010. This is due to growing signs that market demand for accountancy, tax and advisory services is set to rise, according to the company.
Apex Health and Social Care officially launched its Hire a Hero initiative in Manchester’s Belle Vue Greyhound Stadium.
The number of recruiters that have experienced ‘significant’ or ‘critical’ financial distress in the first quarter of 2010 has risen by 18%, according to insolvency practitioner Begbies Traynor’s latest Red Flag update.
In the North West, 270 recruiters reported ‘significant’ or ‘critical’ problems, a rise of 50%
Organisations need to improve their workforce planning if they are to have the people with key skills they need.
Cheshire-based executive search consultancy RMG has appointed Catherine Doolan, Iain Flinn and Phil True as senior consultants.
Doolan joins from Spring IT; Flinn has been recruited from Alexander Mann, while True has worked for RK Group, Hudson and Austin Benn.
Technical, engineering, commercial and scientific recruiter Scantec says it has seen a 60% rise in recruitment overseas during Q1 2010 compared to last year.
The firm sponsored the Shanghai Expo at the Echo Arena & Convention Centre in March, which it says, has helped drive forward the growth of its overseas division.
JCJ Locums, medical recruiter and part of HCL, has launched a free iPhone app for locum doctors to search and apply for jobs while on the move.
Locums can track new vacancies in their grade, speciality and location by registering their name, GMC number, discipline, area and availability.
Regarding your article on Recruitment-to-recruitment (Recruiter, Sector Analysis, 28 April), what has occurred is an economic “survival of the fittest”.
A survey into buyer behaviour on social networking sites has revealed that decision makers in industry are favourably disposed toward using such methods to both locate and be contacted by experts whose services they would be willing to pay for.