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Recruiters join in freefall
All but two of Recruiter's monitored shares fell in the recent turbulence on the stock exchange, which saw around £60bn wiped off the value of leading firms last week.

Among the recruitment agencies worst hit were Empresaria (down 28.25p), Hat Pin (down 41.5p), Michael Page (down 17.25p), Robert Walters (down 15.75p) and Matchtech (down 13.59p).

Only Carlisle Group and Network
Crackdown on rogue agencies
The government's new Employment Bill will increase powers to seize documents, search financial records and clamp down on rogue employment agencies.

The Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform told Recruiter that the bill, which received its first reading in the House of Lords last December, will help enforce the National Minimum Wage, employment agency standards a
Dealmakers 06 February 2008
HCL buys disaster-recovery system
HCL, the health and social care agency, has bought a new telecoms business continuity solution, BCMLITE, from GemaTech to ensure immediate recovery of incoming calls should disaster strike.
United renews Spherion deal
United Airlines has renewed its recruitment process outsourcing (RPO) contract with the Spherion Corporation until 2010.
Dealmakers 20 February 2008
Firms merge is electrifying
McGinley Recruitment Services has merged with JSB Rail to create a specialist electrification service.

Holtby Turner lands deal
Holtby Turner, a senior level people recruitment and development consultancy, has been selected by European
Positive feedback from PASA
Concerns that NHS PASA (Purchasing & Supply Agency) framework recruiters supplying clerical staff to the NHS are required to meet identical contract criteria as those supplying medical staff (Recruiter, 20 February) have received a sympathetic hear
Trawling the web for talent

Look back in the history books to chapters covering the climactic years of 1989-90, and it could seem as though every issue of international importance had come to a stopping point with nowhere else to go: the Cold War had ended with the fall of the Berlin Wall, Nelson Mandela was released from prison, and Margaret Thatcher left 10 Downing Street. Where could the world go from there?

Education system is slammed
The education system is failing children because it doesn't focus on employability, Recruiter's Annual Forum heard, as attendees expressed worries about its effect on the future availability of candidates.

Paul Farrer, CEO of PFJ, said at the Panel Session: "The education system is all wrong, it's not built around employability.
US slump hits financial jobs _2
The housing slump in the US has cost 87,962 jobs in the financial services industry, according to Challenger, Gray & Christmas, a consulting firm.
Dealmakers 19 September 2007
Greatfleet buy. Greatfleet has confirmed the acquisition of Qualitas, the Dublin and Edinburgh-based recruitment group, for an initial consideration of £3.4m, made up of a mixture of cash and shares.
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