Worldwide hiring plans have improved on last year, according to Manpower’s Employment Outlook survey for Q1 2011.
The survey shows hiring plans have improved from 12 months ago in 28 of 39 countries and territories, including the G7 countries, where hiring plans are stable or improved from both the fourth quarter of 2010 and this time last year.
Recruitment-to-recruitment consultancy Aston Taylor has appointed Nicola Swinbank, Paul Bassil and Steve Singh as consultants.
Meanwhile operation director Andrea Saunders has returned from maternity leave.
Recruitment and social media training firm Talent Genius has appointed April Pryce as business development manager for the North-West.
Prycewill head up the firm’s executive recruitment division.
Recruiters have been warned to review their Contractor Compliance Protocols in case any of their UK placements are caught by new legislation.
All listed companies should have to measure their progress on improving diversity in order to boost the number of women on UK boards, according to the CBI.
Global executive search company, AIMS International, has opened an office in Lima, Peru.
New AIMS partner, Armando Cavero Guerrero, will head up the Lima office, which will also cover Bolivia and Ecuador.
Fears that today’s increase in VAT could hit the UK’s labour market hard may be “overplayed”, according to Paul Smith, senior economist at financial information services firm Markit.
Today VAT rose to 20% from 17.5%, while Labour leader Ed Milliband predicted that the move could cost the UK economy 250,000 jobs.
Specialist professional recruiter Hydrogen Group has seen “strong” performances across the group, according to a trading update for its financial year ended 31 December 2010.
According to the update: “Performance across the group has been strong, with growth of net fee income (NFI) of over 60% to exceed £27m for the year ended 31 December 2010 (2009: £17m).
Totaljobs.com’s ‘It’s not luck, it’s totaljobs.com’ has hit the airwaves.
The nationwide television and radio campaign nationwide from today follows a regional trial of the ads.
The campaign complements the previous above the line campaign, which started at the beginning of 2010, and includes online activity on Spotify and 4oD.
A group of recruiters in the US have come together to form a multimedia interview website for global use.
Zuzuhire.com claims to be different from other products because it offers a more customisable platform for recruiters.
It incorporates video, voice and text formats, and completed interviews are ranked based upon the number of correctly answered yes/no questions.