Penna expects stronger H2 profits while revenues have fallen, according to its interim unaudited results for the six months ended 30 September 2010.
The group’s results reveal:
· revenue down 6.8% to £45.1m (2009: £48.4m)
· pre-tax profits before exceptional costs £0.1m (2009: £3.5m)
Comments like this demonstrate a fundamental lack of knowledge about what the new recruitment methods are.
Digital, marketing and creative recruiter Nakama is opening a second office in Australia in Sydney.
The director of Nakama Sydney is Sondra Beram who was previously at Aquent Sydney.
UK firm Anantha has launched repuindex.com
The site helps jobseeker who want to know their current online status and to build their own personal brand in various media.
The number of IT jobs is set to grow at 2.19% per year, nearly five times faster than the UK average, according to research from e-skills UK, the Sector Skills Council for Business and Information Technology.
The notion that workers are “systematically coerced into working on a flexible basis and that temporary and contract work is the source of all problems” needs to be dispelled.
The Chartered Institute for IT (BCS) will launch an event in the style of The Apprentice TV programme called ’The Graduate’ to give IT students and recent graduates a head start in the competitive field of graduate employment in Yorkshire.
Accountants with good cost analysis skills are increasingly in demand, according to Chris McCarthy, director at Hays Senior Finance.
The number of City staff applying for new jobs has risen 47% in one year, according to financial services recruitment firm Astbury Marsden.
The firm says they received more than 7,400 applications from City staff looking to switch employers in February, compared to 5,020 in February 2010.
Procurement and supply chain staffing specialist Hathaway Lane has opened for business.
The new firm, with officesin Dundee and Shrewsbury, will support permanent and interim appointments, at mid and senior-level, across multiple sectors in the UK and EMEA.