Job board Totaljobs.com has launched Totaljobs Barometer that allows users to access a range of analytical data about the UK’s online recruitment market across 33 sectors.
The ‘Totaljobs Barometer’ data can be filtered so that users can focus in on a particular region or sector, meaning that patterns specific to those areas can be identified and analysed.
HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) has warned recruiters and umbrella companies involved in the supply of temporary workers that arrangements known as “Travel and Subsistence Schemes” or “Mobile Workers Schemes” are coming under scrutiny because of concerns that some are operating against the law.
Hospitality recruiter Towngate Personnel has moved from its Bournemouth head office to the second floor of newly refitted County Gates House, more than doubling its floor space.
Services sector business remains below normal, but less so than in the previous three quarters, according to the latest CBI Service Sector Survey.
IT recruiter Parity Group continued to encounter “difficult trading conditions”, in its interim results for the six months ended 30 June 2009.
Revenue was £62.8m (2008: £66.3m), while operating profit from continuing operations (before exceptional items) was £336k (2008: £735k).
International recruiter Robert Walters’ profits slumped in its financial results for the six months ended 30 June 2009.
Global job prospects are improving for the first time since last autumn, according to Antal’s Global Snapshot survey.
The survey reveals that current hiring across the globe was up from 46% in the spring to 50% now.
Average real wage pay rises across Europe fell from 3.6% in 2007 to 1.3% in 2008, according to findings from the Eurofound’s European Industrial Relations Observatory (EIRO).
The report found that the average collectively agreed nominal pay increase in the EU as a whole fell from 7% in 2007 to 6.6% in 2008.
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Unemployment has reached 2.47m following a 210,000 rise in the three months to July, according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS).
Jobseeker’s Allowance claimant numbers rose by 24,400 to 1.61m in August, the highest since May 1997.