There are tentative signs that the shipping sector may be on course for brighter times ahead, according to recruiters.
Latest Department for Transport figures show that freight traffic at UK ports fell by 5% over the year ending Q1 2009 compared with the previous year.
Jobsite has launched a Jobs by Twitter service to help provide candidates with personal tweets listing only relevant jobs to them.
Keith Potts, chief executive at Jobsite, says: “As a Twitter user, I know how frustrating it is to get an endless stream of irrelevant jobs constantly being sent to you.
Bristol-based recruiters believe theirs will be one of the fastest cities to recover economically.
Sonya Moseley, commercial supervisor at industrial and commercial recruiter Mainline Employment, told Recruiter: “We have had a definite increase in business. Since the Budget [published on 22 April] there has been a lot more confidence and we have more temps out.”
The annual cost of becoming a member of the REC’s newly launched Institute of Recruitment Professionals varies between £60 and £100.
There are three categories of membership:
Affiliate (AIRP) for anyone working in recruitment £60
Web-based mapping solutions provider Zubed Geospatial has launched a beta verson of Zubed Jobs (www.zubedjobs.com).
The site finds jobs directly from company websites and displays them on an a map-based interface, similar to a Google map.
Multi-sector recruiter Reed is expanding into Abu Dhabi.
Mark Geraghty
Multi-sector recruiter FPSG (First People Solutions Group) has appointed Mark Geraghty associate director for Manchester and Northern England, Recruiter can exclusively reveal.
In the year ending 31 December 2008, Impellam group posted an operating loss of £2.4m compared with £3.4m in 2007.
For the purposes of comparison, this is a pro forma figure, calculated as if the merger of Corporate Services Group and Carlisle had occurred on 1 January 2007 rather than in May 2008.
A significant easing in the pace of decline in the UK’s manufacturing and service sectors has not been enough to lift the economy out of recession, leaving thousands of the country’s small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in a fierce battle to survive, according to a new survey.
