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Fast-food restaurant McDonalds is creating 4,000 new jobs in Britain to cope with increased demand for its Big Macs, McNuggets and McFlurry ice creams.
UBS is cutting 5,500 jobs in response to market turmoil. The troubled Swiss bank has written off $37bn (£18.5bn) since the credit crisis hit.

Maybe we should have retitled this page ‘Doom and gloom corner’. According to specialist HR consultancy A&DC, the most popular interview question nowadays reveals how the credit crunch affects organisations even at recruitment and talent management levels

Recruiters must not be tempted into collective agreements over setting prices, warned a senior employment lawyer, after an investigation was launched into alleged breaches of competition law by eight recruitment agencies.

Canadian-based aerospace company Bombardier is hiring 100 staff for its Belfast plant to fill engineering, supply chain, customer support and finance roles.
You interview a new candidate, who is a senior manager. He looks good on paper, but he wants to bring his team with him to a new employer. Are there any legal risks involved?

Former employees of Ellis Fairbank, the Leeds-based executive recruiter that was sold to IHR Group after it went into administration on 21 October, are still owed more than £200,000 in unpaid wages and compensation, it is claimed.

Recruiter is holding its third annual forum next spring at London’s Thistle Marble Arch hotel.

I have just read your article (Recruiter, 17 September, Storm batters the minnows, p14) with interest and note how very true it is what you say.

UK recruiters will benefit from yet more business networking opportunities with the news that the German professional networking site XING.com is aiming to launch a marketing campaign to recruit more UK members, possibly rivalling the mighty LinkedIn in this country.

XING, which was launched in 2003, has around 5m mem
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