A Dumfries and Galloway forestry contractor has been convicted of operating as a gangmaster without a licence.
At Dumfries Sheriff Court on Friday (15 October), Christopher Fairgrieve Murray of Dunscore pled guilty on a charge of section 12(1) of the Gangmasters (Licensing) Act (GLA) 2004* and was fined £2,500.
Salaries and fee income for UK recruiters working in contingency recruitment have gone up over the past year by as much as 10-28%, according to the Annual Recruitment, Executive Search & Interim Management Salary Survey 2011 by Heywood Staffing Solutions.
Online recruitment activity rose to its highest levels since December 2008, according to the latest Monster Employment Index.
IT recruiter Ashton Consulting has appointed Zoe Drew as contract recruitment consultant specialising in virtualisation, cloud computing and storage contracts.
Katrina Dorney joins as permanent recruitment consultant for virtual market of technical architecture.
Global Sage, a global executive search firm specialising in financial services, has appointed Andrew Miller as director of Asia.
Miller will head business development for the firm’s intelligence and research group. With more 15 years’ experience in the financial services sector, Miller previously served as managing director in Asia for both Linedata Services and Xinhua Finance.
As unemployment rises to 2.5m, the UK is “not out of the woods yet”, according to Melanie Whitehall, director at Matchstick Recruitment.
Charles Russam, chairman of the winner of the inaugural Best Interim Recruitment Agency, Russam GMS, believed his firm’s candidate care set it apart from its competitors.
Social recruitment site BraveNewTalent.com has acquired specialist careers advice video site HereComesTheBoss.com.
More than half of employers (51%) are concerned they will not be able to fill jobs requiring the right graduate level or higher skills in the coming years, according to a poll from the Confederation of British Industry and qualifications awarding body EDI.
