Agency management company de Poel says recruiters are flocking to sign up to be paid five days earlier than usual under a new initiative.
Matthew Sanders, director of de Poel, told Recruiter that after recently to the 800 agencies who work with the firm, 40 “were extremely positive” while 30 were “interested” and said ‘can we talk about it?’”
In its trading update for the second quarter of 2009, Michael Page says there are “increasing signs that the rate of decline is slowing” in the UK.
The number of resourcing roles have increased for the first time in a year, according to new findings from HR recruiter Aspen Partners International.
S·com has won a place on the ICT consultancy & delivery services framework agreement.
The framework agreement will provide buying solutions and government organisations with access to a list of pre-qualified suppliers of ICT consultants, including specialised ICT security consultants to provide best practice security assurance and testing services.
One in three managers use social networking sites as part of their recruitment, and one in five would consider using it as their only method of recruitment in the future, according to new research.
Recruitment scoring website hirescores.com found that only 13% of the 419 business managers it surveyed were against the use of social networking sites for recruitment.
Women continue to be paid less and are not as likely to hold senior positions as men, according to findings from executive jobs website Experteer.
The figures show that there are 10 times fewer female managing directors than their male counterparts and they are paid on average a sixth less, losing out on apotential £13,000 a year each.
TFPL, the recruitment, training and consulting division of IDOX group is to merge its recruitment division with permanent recruitment business Intelligent Resources.
Matchtech Group saw a 9% fall in net fee income in the 12 months ending 31 July 2009, according to the company’s trading statement.
The number of candidates lying on their CVs has reached a three-year high in the financial sector, according to research from pre-employment screening firm Powerchex.
The research found that one in five jobseeker’s CVs contain a major untruth, while there has been a 30% increase in the number of young employees lying on their CVs.
Peterborough MP Stewart Jackson has lent his support to a campaign to delay the implementation of the Agency Workers Directive by multi-sector recruiter Anne Corder Recruitment.
The directive would give temporary workers the same benefits as permanent staff after 12 weeks.