International recruiter Empresaria Group has conditionally raised £2.8m through an oversubscribed placing of new shares at 28p per share.
The funds are to grow its international businesses and enable it to maintain the infrastructure and management resource required to take advantage of any economic turnaround.
hyphen, the recruitment outsourcing arm of Spring Group, has renewed its three-year managed service contract with EADS DS, part of the EADS European defence group.
The contract is worth around £24m per year and will see hyphen continue to manage around 300 contingent workers across all skill sets.
The Monster employment index UK recovered slightly in April, rising by 2%. Although this was the second monthly rise in the past three months, the index is down 37% year-on-year
Online job opportunities increased in the healthcare, education, management and consulting, and legal sectors, with online job offerings rising but dipping in construction and in HR.
Marketing recruiter EMR has promoted Simon Bassett to managing director.
Bassett was previously director and a former managing consultant at EMR.
EMR is part of the FiveTen Group which includes finance recruiter WH Marks Sattin, legal staffing firm Laurence Simons, IT recruiter Greythorn, Ortus in HR and Antal Russia.
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International recruitment services company OPD has confirmed it has received an indicative offer for the company from chairman Peter Hearn at 57p a share. OPD says an independent committee of the OPD board has been formed to evaluate the indicative proposal and has granted Hearn permission to undertake limited due diligence into the company.
A large number of firms are resisting pay freezes, according to consultancy Mercer.
Women make up a third (32%) of interim executives, according to an Ipsos MORI report by the Interim Management Association (IMA).
