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James Caan, from the BBC programme Dragons’ Den, and founder and former chief executive of the Alexander Mann Group, has invested in online recruitment firm webrecruit.
Caan has also taken the role of chairman of webrecruit after a speculative approach from the company’s directors resulted in his investing an undisclosed sum in the company.
IT recruiter SThree has joined the ranks of the top 250 companies in the FTSE share index.
Steve Hornbuckle,?company secretary,?SThree, told Recruiter: “We have just got back into the FTSE 250, our performance of late has been more buoyant than a number of our competitors.”
The company was last in the FTSE 250 in December 2007.
The Association of Professional Staffing Companies (APSCo) is leading the UK’s first professional staffing trade delegation to Brazil between 4-7 May 2009 to help its members expand in the region.
The Institute of Leadership & Management (ILM) has issued its top tips on how managers can ‘recession-proof’ themselves.
1) Think positive
Try not to take an overly negative outlook about your prospects and what might go wrong – focus instead on what you do well.
2) Be pleasant to be around
Industrial and commercial recruiter People Plus has linked up with local football club Wolverhampton Wanderers.
Wolves fans and business partners Jason Guy and Luke Adamczyk advertised their business with Wolverhampton Wanderers at the turn of the year - a decision that has already paid dividends for the recruitment firm.
Monster has issued guidelines on how to take a power nap at work ahead of National Nap at Work Week, which runs from 29 March to 5 April.
The top tips are:
The ‘REC bond’ referred to by John Bissell (Recruiter, Letters, 18 March) didn’t receive support in 2005 because it was a levy on prudent and competent agencies to protect against the actions of feckless and incompetent agencies.
Candidate clips: video has helped in finsing the right person