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Monster has launched its Career Ad Network (CAN) in the UK. CAN targets candidates across the internet by analysing users’ online information to assess their job experience and interests.  

Construction could be about to emerge from the recession, according to specialist market intelligence firm Glenigan.

Positive indicators include:

- a rise in the number of construction projects going to tender from an average of 30 in February to 38 a day in May

- planning applications in May were 32% above the low point reached in February

Industrial staffing firm Extrastaff has had its licence revoked by the Gangmasters Licensing Authority (GLA).

Extrastaff had appealed the decision and was allowed  to continue to trade until a new licence application was considered.

The firm failed in their bid to get the licence reinstated and their licence was revoked on 18 May.

Meridian Health, division of Meridian Business Support, has won a place on NHS PASA’s (Purchasing & Supply Agency’s) Framework for the Supply of Commercial Resources.

Meridian Health will be charged with the supply of interim managers and senior level professionals.

Empresaria chairman

Tony Martin

Philip Wedderburn (pictured on the left) is learning signalling at SkyBlue’s purposebuilt track at Duddeston Rail Branch facility near Birmingham.

Stability has returned to recruitment in the London financial markets, but there are no green shoots, according to the chief executive of Michael Page.

The Recruitment Employment Confederation (REC) has urged the government to work with the recruitment industry to address concerns over ‘phoenix’ recruiters, firms who repeatedly abuse insolvency procedures to write off debts and set up a new business.

The REC has written to the Department of Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) to highlight the matter.

The worst of the recession could be over, according to findings from the British Chambers of Commerce (BCC) Economic Survey.

Manufacturing fared better in Q2 than services, though in absolute terms, the manufacturing sector remains in a worse condition overall.

CPL Resources, the Irish recruiter, which is listed on the London Stock Exchange, says it has remained profitable, despite the deep downturn in the Irish economy.

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