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Financial recruiter Imprint saw its share price fall dramatically, down 21% — 41p, on the day it announced that OPD Group had walked away from discussions about a possible takeover.

Kean Marden, support services equity analyst at Kaupthing Singer & Friedlander, told Recruiter: "The key is that OPD's share price has fallen; to complete the acquisition it would have had to issue more and
Recruiters have criticised the NHS Purchasing and Supply Agency (PASA) for its national framework agreement to supply medical locums (excluding GPs) and told Recruiter of their fears for the organisation's recently announced £187m contract due to begin next year.

Tim Wheeler, managing direct
Fish4jobs has the most unique users of any job board, according to the second ABC Electronic audit, part of the latest National Online Recruitment Audience Survey (NORAS).

Fish4jobs achieved 2.8m unique users, compared with Monster.co.uk's 2.7m, Guardian Jobs' 1.1m and eFinancialCareers.com's 1m unique users.

The survey of 27 leading job boards revealed that a majority of jobseekers
Recruitment agencies are not at their most helpful when candidates are looking to change career or go into a new sector.

That was one theme raised by speakers at the Executive Recruitment Conference, at London's ExCel this month.

Rob Barklamb, vice president of operations at MRINetwork Worldwi
EXCLUSIVE: Gareth Quarry, the man who made a personal profit of £30m from the sale of Quarry Douglas to TMP Worldwide, is looking for ambitious search consultants to follow his example as part of a planned expansion of Shilton Sharp Quarry, his current company, into non-legal services.
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Six recruiters made history on 10 July by receiving the first-ever bachelor's degrees in recruitment practice to be awarded by Middlesex University.

The Middlesex degree programme in recruitment, believed to be the only one of its kind in the UK, was lead by Anna Kyprianou, dean of Middlesex's busine

Recruiters have reacted strongly to calls by the construction workers union UCATT that self-employed workers should be banned from working on the London Olympics.

Alan Ritchie, the union's general secretary, claimed using self-employed workers would encourage tax abuses, reduce site safety and den

A survey of rec-to-rec firms has revealed that nearly 80% of the recruitment consultants placed with agencies during a recent six-month period were of white British ethnicity.

Of the remaining 21% of consultants placed between September 2006 and last February, an additional 9% were white of other bac
Monster Worldwide announced last week that it is to cut 15% of its workforce in a bid to boost efficiency and service to customers.

The job losses will impact non-sales related functions in North America, although it says parts of the global sales force with low productivity rates will also be affected.

A spokeswoman for Monster UK told Recruiter that it's too early to say what impac
About 50 recruitment agencies have been affected by services company Sodexho's decision to bring its permanent recruitment in-house and create a universal recruitment system.

Officials at the company, which provides food services, facilities management and vouchers to clients around the world, believ
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