If I was In-House Hannah’s employer, I’d be asking myself the question: ‘Which adds more value, someone who spends her time copying and pasting names into her mobile, making her list look pretty with pictures or an experienced consultant who is going to network properly ie. get out and meet people?’
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Extreme Recruitment Solutions has launched recruitment placement division SportRecruit for all sports including rugby, football, golf, cricket and wintersports.
Job placements on SportRecruit will be advertised on the network of sites under www.extremerecruitment.com.
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This is the last City page of what has undoubtedly been a traumatic year for shares in the recruitment sector as even the most cursory glance down our share table of this time 12 months ago will show.
Predicting the timing of economic recovery is a tricky business. As Paul Venables, finance director of Hays, commented following the company’s latest trading statement: “It’s hard to predict when recovery will come. We are seeing no signs of recovery, and we wouldn’t expect to.”
Staffline and Prime People both issued trading updates during the last period. Prime People said that trading had been hit hard by the downturn in the commercial property market and warned that results for the full year would be “significantly below market expectations”.
Despite the global downturn in the second half of the year, international multi-sector recruiter SThree has announced improved results for 2008.
In the group’s preliminary results for the year ended 30 November 2008:
- Revenue rose 20.8% to £631.5m (2007: £522.7m)
- Gross profit (Fee income) was up 19.8% to £218.9m (2007: £182.7m)
