Medical agencies will no longer have to go through NHS Professionals when supplying medical locums and doctors to the NHS.
A bulletin sent to agencies says that from 1 April NHS Trusts “will deal directly with your agency in regards to the booking of your staff”.
The Interim Management Association (IMA) has launched the IMA Institute, giving interim managers individual membership of the IMA for the first time.
Jason Atkinson, deputy chair of IMA, told Recruiter that the Institute was “the most important initiative the IMA had set up since its founding 20 years ago”.
Tom Coulter Management consultant, Discover Retail
The annual National Online Recruitment Audience Survey (NORAS) surveyed over 50,000 online jobseekers. The survey shows that one in seven jobseekers exclusively use the internet to look for jobs, a figure up from one in 11 a year ago and more than double the figure of one in 16 in 2007.
Online hiring activity showed signs of recovery in February, according to the Monster Employment Index.
Following a quarter of contraction, the index grew by 6 points.
Activity was driven by openings in education, training and library and management and consulting sectors.
UK interviewers are the least likely to check social networking sites, new research from talent management consultancy DDI shows.
The research shows only 12% of interviewers claimed to do so. Their German counterparts are almost twice as likely as any other country to conduct online searches, while 46% say they use this technique to make hiring decisions.
Temp workers
Recruiters have until the end of play tomorrow to enter Recruiter’s search for the UK’s best temporary/interim workers.
Government pledges to bring forward £3bn of public spending in the construction industry from 2010-11 to the current year to mitigate the effects of the downturn, have yet to feed through to recruitment, according to recruiters in the sector.
Recruiters have been boosted by a return to growth as both the German and French economies grew by 0.3% between April and June.
