The unemployment rate in the UK dropped by 0.1 percentage points to 8.1% in the three months to July, the Office for National Statistics reports today.
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Executive search firm CTPartners has appointed Morten Nielsen as managing partner and global head of its life sciences & healthcare practice in the US.
Sources have told news agency Reuters that hospital staffing company CHG Healthcare Services has hired Goldman Sachs to advise on its potential sale, which could be worth over $1bn (£620m).
UK-based headhunting company Dangerfield International has opened a new office in Toronto.
Just one in five Russian companies have policies in place prohibiting staff from moving to competitor organisations for a certain period after leaving a job, and 61% of managers say that it is ethical to move to a competitor.
Gary Ashworth, chairman of IT recruiter InterQuest Group, describes the first half of 2012 as “a period of significant change for the group”, with investments made “at the expense of short-term 2012 profitability”, although profit before tax was still a healthy £932k.
Rec-to-rec firm McCall made a loss of £7,761 after tax in 2011 compared with a profit of £119,904 in 2010, according to accounts filed at Companies House.
Public sector interim management placements has outstripped the demand in the private sector for the first time since tracking began in 2006.
According to findings from the Interim Management Association’s (IMA) Ipsos MORI report, 51% of all completed interim assignments in Q2 were from the public sector, up from 43% in Q1.
David Taylor and Mark Payne, managing director and account director at telecoms recruiter First Point Group, have attended a special evening reception for 2009 Queen’s Award winners hosted by Her Majesty The Queen and other members of the Royal Family.
Back office support services provider Cash Simply is sponsoring the new strip of Forest of Dean Ladies Football team.
The team will show off the new strip in the first round of the FA Cup against Wolverhampton Wanderers Ladies on Sunday 27 September.