The recruiter criticised by the Daily Mail for charging £206,000 to supply an interim manager in a £50,000 a year job has hit back, claiming the newpaper “doesn’t understand interim”.
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Jobseekers are revaluating their career options, with 36% of applicants prepared to take “whatever I can get”, according to a recent study.
Research by recruitment website CV-Library found that only 16% of applicants are looking for a job better than their previous position. Unskilled trade candidates’ confidence is worst hit with 58% prepared to take any position they can get.
The Army is to outsource the recruitment of its soldiers and officers to the private sector.
The Army will host an event later this month to inform potential bidders about the details of the contract.
Recruitment sources say that the contract will be worth about £100m over a decade and may not be finalised for another two years.
Most large UK firms are considering outsourcing major business functions abroad, according to research by Roland Berger Strategy Consultants.
“We were able to use our connections through our businesses around the world to build links locally in the Middle East,” Maxted told Recruiter.
Digby Morgan picked up its second successive award win in the HR category at the Recruiter Awards for Excellence at the Grosvenor House Hotel in London.
Desmond Doyle has stepped down as group chief executive at multi-sector recruiter and managed services provider Impellam Group.
The move follows a strategic review which concluded that Impellam’s business objectives could be “achieved with a flatter and more streamlined management organisation”.
There have been twice as many cases of corporate data theft since 2006, claims new analysis by professional services firm KPMG and lawyer Mishcon de Reya.
The findings also showed that 70% of the analysed cases, the perpetrator(s) were employees who moved to work for a competitor company, 75% of all cases analysed, the data stolen was customer or client-related information.
London-based IT recruitment firm AWD has launched a flat-fee generalist permanent recruiting service.
Clients pay £525 (plus VAT) for one vacancy credit, which lasts four weeks, and receive their money back if they do not fill the position successfully in this time.