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Demonstrating sector expertise and building strong relationships have helped niche recruiters dominate this year’s Fast 50, according to Tim Evans, managing director at Boxington Corporate Finance.
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Umbrella firm FPS Group has appointed Simon Last-Sutton as managing director.
Most recently he was operations director for 5050 Gaming Corporation and is a former chief executive at Cable & Wireless IOM.
Corporate recovery, insolvency and restructuring specialist Leonard Curtis is opening a new office in Bristol.
The office, located at Queen Square in the city, will be led by director Colin Prescott.
Today’s figures indicating a rise in unemployment is not surprising, given significant cuts to public sector jobs, according toCharles Logan, director at Hays.
UK unemployment rose by 49,000 to almost 2.5m in the quarter to November, but the number of people claiming unemployment benefit for December fell, according to figures from the Office for National Statistics.
A freelancer has been cleared of avoiding tax, while working as a freelance contractor by an employment tribunal.
The long running IR35 dispute was concluded when a tribunal cleared PCG member Mark Fitzpatrick of using his limited company MBF Design Services to avoid tax, while working as a freelance contractor for Airbus.
Almost a quarter of employers see the office admin role becoming more essential to the success of their business, according to research from Hays.
Eight in 10 employers claim office support workers provide essential support and are the backbone of the organisation but 62% of employers say jobseekers need to do more to stand out.
Confidence among retailers to recruit is waning, with most firms (58%) planning to maintain headcount in the next quarter, according to data from the British Retail Consortium.
The BRC-Bond Pearce Retail Employment Monitor (REM) also reveals 38% of retailers plan to decrease staffing levels in the next three months, compared with 13% this time last year.
Three in four enquiries to healthcare staffing specialist HCL International’s dedicated Australian nursing team have been from Irish nurses.
International legal search and recruitment consultancy Shilton Sharpe Quarry (SSQ) has seen profits rise, according to its preliminary results for the year ended 31 December 2010.
These group’s results reveal profit before tax rose 122% to £3.4m on gross profit of £10.1m (up 45% on 2009).
The number of vacancies for middle and senior managers, as well as for high profile professionals, has been growing since the second half of last year and the trend continues in 2011.