A major US IT recruiter has instructed a UK corporate finance company to identify potential acquisition targets among UK IT recruiters.
Mike Higgins, a partner and specialist in the recruitment sector at Fusion Corporate Finance, told Recruiter that the US client was “a major player in the States that wished to be supported round the world from a single source of supply”.
In response to Denise Walker’s letter on key performance indicators (KPIs) (Recruiter, 26 November), KPIs can have a role to play, there’s no doubt. For example, focusing the recruiter in their time management and providing a useful analysis of their overall performance.
In spite of the recession, around 10,000 apprenticeships are to be created, the government has announced.
E-commerce jobsite EcommJobs.co.uk features a How Far Will You Go? facility which enables e-commerce professionals to calculate the true cost of their journey to work.
Media, entertainment and lifestyle brands recruiter Handle Recruitment is defying the ‘doom and gloom’ merchants by opening a new legal division.
Members of the ASWEB (the Association of Social Work Employment Businesses) will be formally audited from the beginning of 2009 in an attempt to raise standards in social work recruitment.
Abu Dhabi dreams: Wish you were here? Maybe not…
Barclays has released further details on its hunt for the UK’s most enterprising family.
Family-run recruitment firms could stand to win £17,500 as winner of the competition, organised by Dragon’s Den winner and Reggae Reggae Sauce entrepreneur, Levi Roots, and Barclays Local Business.
Atkinson: important initiative
Healthcare recruiter Pulse has been awarded a place on the national framework agreement to supply temporary allied health professionals (AHP) and health science service (HSS) staff to all NHS bodies within the UK.
The contract, giving access to the £96m AHP/HSS market, will run for three years, with a possible extension of a further 12 months.