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Professional and technical recruiter Matchtech Group says trading in the final four months of FY2012 were “broadly as anticipated”, and expects to announce full financial results for the full financial year to 31 July “within the current range of expectations, albeit at the lower end”.
Healthcare recruiter Healthcare Locums (HCL) says it expects that it will see EBITDA (earnings before depreciation, amortisation, interest, tax and other announced operating costs) for the first half of 2012 lower than it was in 2011.
The food and drinks industry has an opportunity to look at its recruitment and people strategies, and concentrate on making improvements where needed, with the launch of specialist jobsite Yourfoodjob.com’s (YFJ’s) People Awards 2012.
While job site Monster was not saved from weakness in its European and Asian markets by a strong performance in North America, professional social network LinkedIn reports strong growth across its geographies.
Specialist job site Multilingualvacancies.com found it was able to engage with three times as many people by hosting an online jobseeker question & answer session via social networking site Facebook.
Telecommunications firm Vodafone has announced it will open a new technology lab and incubation centre in London’s Tech City, offering advice and support to entrepreneurs, as one of several boosts to the UK information and communications technology (ICT) industry being announced today.
Specialist job site Oil and Gas Job Search has now made its jobsite app available for jobseekers via Android phones, and has also made it available for free via Google’s multimedia distribution content site Google Play.
While the Olympics could well help lift the spirits of the nation, particularly if our athletes start winning more gold medals, we believe the impact will be ephemeral with the post-Olympic hangover particularly painful. We therefore remain unconvinced by the short-term prospects for the recruitment industry.
Multi-sector recruitment agency Asset Resourcing has taken on Annie Dorrington, Supriya Mathur and Khalid Oukhellou as consultants in its Hertfordshire headquarters.
Multi-sector Escape Recruitment has appointed Leah Radnanski, Louisa Wright and Craig Yaxley to the business.
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