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Recruitment and retention in the financial services industry is more difficult in Hong Kong than anywhere else in the world, except for Japan, according to Robert Half International.
GRS opens in Paris
Malaysia has frozen the recruitment of Indian workers in a move apparently linked to the recent mass protests by the ethnic Indians in Kuala Lumpur against their alleged marginalisation. Workers from India will not be recruited, but it is not clear if the ban applies to professionals as well.



Hays AG, the German subsidiary of Hays, has implemented an electronic invoicing system from Authentidate International AG. It hopes the system will improve processes and customer service.



Utah's education leaders are using online network Teachers.com to attract teachers to the state. The state Office of Education pays about $100,000 a year to place recruitment ads with the service, which lets teachers and prospective teachers around the globe post CVs.

Police use of translation services up
Know-who.com, a new online recruitment portal which allows a community of candidates, referrers and recruiting organisations to interact with each other, was launched at the end of February.

The service offers cash rewards to members who recommend friends, family and colleagues for jobs.
A shortlist of candidates for the chief executive's job at the REC will be interviewed over the next month.

Acting CEO Helen Reynolds confirmed to Recruiter that both first and second interviews will take place in that time.
Businesses should not panic, but neither should they wait for the "official declaration of a recession" to begin planning their IT strategies to survive a financial downturn, an analyst with leading IT research and advisory company Gartner urged a London audience last week.

Speaking to an audience of IT employers, Mark Raskino, a vice president and Gartner fellow in the firm's Emerging Tren
The relationship between agencies and contractors is a difficult, awkward and even troubled one, characterised by misconceptions and lack of mutual understanding on either side.

This was one of the key messages to emerge from a roundtable event, organised by umbrella company Parasol and the Professio
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