Jobsite MyJobGroup.co.uk predicts that today will be the busiest day for job searches of 2011.
Mark Riley, marketing manager of MyJobGroup.co.uk, says: “Our busiest day has traditionally been the first Tuesday back in the office after 1 January.
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The number of professional job vacancies in Ireland decreased by 12% from November to December 2010, according to the latest Morgan McKinley Irish Employment Monitor.
The monitor also reveals that 42.8% of managers say their firms were planning to hire new staff, while for 39.2% hiring is on hold and 18% unsure of their hiring activity for the next 12 months.
The Recruitment & Employment Confederation (REC) has appointed Gillian Econopouly as head of policy.
Econopouly, previously the London Chamber of Commerce and Industry’s head of policy, will be leading the REC’s lobbying and campaigning work.
Multi-sector recruiter Scantec Personnel has appointed Christian Sannwald as recruitment consultant in its fast moving consumer goods (FMCG) division.
This is the second appointment in the team since the division was launched under Sara Frith in 2009.
The global CEO of Grafton Employment Group is banking on a new sales and marketing strategy to spearhead its international expansion.
Jason Kennedy told Recruiter that the new strategy was being led by a Business Innovation Team (the Big team). Launched in the autumn, the team is comprised of nine senior staff.
Three out of four of London’s temporary workers say they have seen levels of temporary workers increase or remain constant in the companies that they had worked for.
Built environment recruiter AndersElite has launched a London-based IT solutions team.
The team will cater for IT recruitment services including permanent and contract placement, as well as managed staffing programs and recruitment process outsourcing services and will be led by director Scott Siwicki along with divisional manager, Simon Shobrook.
International teaching recruiter ANZUK Teachers has opened its third office in the UK in Chichester, Sussex.
The firm places teachers in schools in England, Australia and New Zealand.
IT, accountancy, hospitality, leisure and professional services recruiter the Kellan Group has raised £1.35m in a move to fund expansion plans.
The group has issued 16.98m new shares together with loan notes that are repayable in 2015.
The group says trading improved in H2 2010 after reporting a loss at EBITA level of £419,000 during H1 2010.
JobMate has launched a free Wordpress plug-in application, which enables recruiters and employers to use JobMate to display jobs directly on their websites using Wordpress.
JobMate provides software that enables recruiters to post jobs onto their own websites and that of other job boards simultaneously.