The Treasury is looking to hire up to 70 former bankers who have lost their jobs in the credit crunch to bolster its expertise in dealing with the City.
The biggest expansion will be in the financial services department, which has already increased in size from 60 to about 120 staff.
Rec-to-rec agencies are working together to ensure they can secure business and candidates.
Simon Waters, director of rec-to-rec recruiter Waters Barnes Associates, told Recruiter:
“We are co-operating now much more now than ever before with other rec-to-recs.”
Split fee arrangements are allowing recruiters to win exclusivity with candidates, say recruiters.
Buoyant sales figures from Britain’s top restaurants have been met with confusion by hospitality recruiters.
Aggregated sales figures from 11 of the biggest pub and restaurant operators show that in January like-for-like figures were up 5.6% on January of last year, according to Peach Business Tracker, run in conjunction with KPMG and UBS.
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Managed services provider Comensura has won a new contract to supply all of Redditch Borough Council’s temporary workers.
Following a worker’s recent dismissal for disparaging remarks about her job, Monster has issued guidelines for the use of social networking websites.
Kimberly Swann was made an example of calling for her job “boring”. Monster’s guidelines are:
Around 20% of the 10,000 new positions created at supermarket Tesco will go to working mothers, claims its head of resourcing.
Two executive search firms have made top-level appointments.
International executive search specialist Russell Reynolds Associates has appointed two directors to the company.
Debra Barbanel has been hired as managing director and co-leader of the real estate practice in North America and Robert Mayes has been appointed executive director of the real estate practice. 45
Rumours have escalated over international recruiter Adecco’s targeting of multi-sector staffing firm SThree, following an article published in Recruiter, 18 March.
Castlerock Care Services has opened offices in Gateshead and London after winning a master vendor contract for Four Seasons Health Care, now being rolled out across the England and Wales.