The number of unemployed has risen by 140,000 in the three months to September to 1.82m.
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Electrical appliances firm Electrolux has announced it is to cut 3,000 jobs due to declining sales.
The firm, which has around 600 UK employees, says the cuts will begin immediately and hit operations globally.
Hammond Resources, a division of Rise Group, has announced the hire of four new staff as the accountancy recruiter continues to cement its brand on Scotland’s marketplace.
Its new recruits join the Edinburgh and Glasgow offices from a variety of traditional and online staffing businesses, Hammond says.
In recent months, SmallTalk has introduced you to teambuilding with horses, management appraisal when driving and behavioural characteristics around animals. Now the latest technique is Teppanyaki teambuilding. What’s all that about then? According to the firm Culinary Teambuilding, the art of traditional Japanese Teppanyaki “is a popular cooking style with a real wow factor.
The Daily Telegraph reported today that the open-plan office may be damaging workers’ health.
Two sales recruiters are defying the downturn by setting up an agency in Cardiff, South Wales.
Duncan Powell and his business partner Dale Williams opened Yolk Sales Recruitment on 5 January and told Recruiter that Cardiff was “massively up and coming” and the largest contact centre growth area in the UK.
More than half of Russian businesses are still hiring at managerial level, according to a survey by international recruiter Antal Russia.
Despite the global economic problems, Antal’s Global Snapshot found that apart from the banking and finance sector, other sectors in the Russian market were still hiring staff.
There may be “Arctic conditions” outside but recruitment goes on.
Steve Wyeth, director at sdw recruitment in Southampton, told Recruiter that the snow was not going to stop him from getting into work: “We have a good four or five inches. I have got into work okay - it took a lot longer and the roads are a complete nightmare but I got there in the end.
Tough trading conditions are driving change and opportunity in the industry.
Russell Clements, chief executive of IT recruiter SThree, told Recruiter the recession is causing a “periodic pruning of the industry’s weaker players — which is no bad thing”.
The haulage and logistics sector is being blighted by a major skills shortage, according to a new survey.
The survey, from the Recruitment and Employment Confederation (REC) Drivers Group, shows that more than 200,000 skilled workers will be required within the industry in the next 10 years.