The UK’s move to becoming a fast food nation will create opportunities for recruiters.
As fast food outlet KFC announces plans to create 9,000 jobs, Paula Rogers, managing director at hospitality staffing firm Admiral, told Recruiter:
“They will use agencies at senior level and the need for senior level staff will increase because people want to get the very best in.
Zavvi will not be the last high-profile victim of the recession, according to retail recruiters.
Marketing Week reports that defunct entertainment retailer Zavvi will be wound-up after a company led by former chief executive Simon Douglas agreed a deal to buy all remaining stock and eight stores.
The Home Office has announced the biggest fall in Eastern and Central European workers registering in the UK in five years.
The number of A8 migrants registering to work in the UK in the final three months of last year fell by 47% to around 27,000 compared with the same period in 2007.
Commercial recruiter Temple Quay Recruitment has merged with multi-sector recruiter gap personnel, Recruiter can exclusively reveal.
Most gangmasters are in favour of licensing, claims a new report on the performance of the GLA by the University of Sheffield and University of Liverpool.
The report found that 79% of surveyed gangmasters backed licensing, while 69% said the GLA were doing a good job and only 18% described their contact with the GLA as burdensome.
Managing director of legal and financial recruiter Sellick Partnership, Jo Sellick, has been elected to the executive committee of the Association of Professional Staffing Companies (APSCo).
Robinson: directory of sites
Blowing in the wind: focus is even more on renewables
Civil projects have surged by 39% compared with February last year, according to contract leads monitoring service Emap Glenigan.
Keith Simpson, manager of construction at Shorterm, told Recruiter the company has experienced an increase in civil construction work during the last six weeks:
The European Union’s 2010 employment targets now seem unobtainable, as the downturn grips the EU member states.
Targets set in the Lisbon treaty, signed in 2000, had aimed for an overall unemployment rate of 4% or less across the union and 70% overall employment rate.