Michael Page International's share price rose 23.5p (4.5%), after it reported record second quarter gross profit of £121m, an increase of 38%. Page's results also boosted the rest of the industry, in particular SThree, whose shares rose 17p following the announcement.
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A US job-board which recruits senior managers in the £50,000 a year salary bracket is to launch over here in the autumn.
The site, which is used by a number of Fortune 500 companies in the US, including TimeWarner and Microsoft, turned over $30m (£14.6m) last year.
TheLadders.co.uk is different to most job-boards in that the candidate pays a subscription to use it, as opposed to c

Moore insisted his company would give full backing to the Recruitment and Employment Confederation's (REC) acting chief executive, Helen Reynold
London-based executive search consultants S+T+C+C has been asked to find three non-executive directors (NEDs) for a minerals firm based in Kazakhstan that intends to float on the London Stock Exchange.
Recruitment agencies named as top places to work in the UK and Europe

Tony Reeves and John Bowmer, formerly of HotGroup and Adecco respectively, jointly acquired a 62.6% stake in the hospitality recruiter firm earli
The man who was crowned the UK's best temporary worker has described his success as "unreal".
Office worker Michael Ross, from York, was named as the winner of the Recruitment and Employment Confederation's One In a Million Award during a glitzy champagne reception at the House of Commons last week.
Ross was fighting back tears as he told Recruiter: "It's unreal.
Office worker Michael Ross, from York, was named as the winner of the Recruitment and Employment Confederation's One In a Million Award during a glitzy champagne reception at the House of Commons last week.
Ross was fighting back tears as he told Recruiter: "It's unreal.
Engineering recruiter EPCglobal is offering £5,000 to anyone who successfully refers consultants to the company in an effort to boost staff numbers.
"EPCglobal is quite a small company and not very well known.
"EPCglobal is quite a small company and not very well known.

Peter Warren told Recruiter: "I wo
Contingency recruiters are increasingly turning to researchers to source candidates and improve the quality of their databases, according to the directors of Talent Works UK.
"Executive search companies have recruited like this for years but it's new for contingency recruiters to be doing this.
"Executive search companies have recruited like this for years but it's new for contingency recruiters to be doing this.