In challenging business conditions, what are the M&A (mergers and acquisitions) prospects for a successful recruiter? What will make an agency attractive to a buyer and will AWR have an impact on buyer appetite?
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The chief executive of international industrial conglomerate General Electric (GE), Jeff Immelt, says the world is experiencing “a new zeitgeist” in the form of a global manufacturing renaissance.
The Australian Education, Employment and Workplace Relations ministry has committed to putting locals first for new jobs in the country’s mining boom.
Proposals have been made for taking action on the significant under-representation of ethnic Chinese Malaysian citizens in recruitment to the country’s public sector.
Professional services firm PwC’s head of people Gaenor Bagley says the firm’s new apprenticeship scheme in its tax practice should provide “a real alternative for talented students who want to get into business straight from school or college”.
Retail recruiters tell Recruiter that the sale of many outlets of gift and card retailer Clinton Cards to a US firm provides a much-needed boost to the high street.
The main impact of the Agency Workers Regulations (AWR) may be that they are causing frustration for agencies, notes The Employment Agents Movement’s (TEAM’s) AWR Survey.
In comments accompanying SThree’s trading update for the first half of 2012, Russell Clements, chief executive of global technology recruiter SThree says the group traded ‘satisfactorily” despite “the deteriorating macro economic situation during the second quarter.” And he warns that “in overall terms the market is becoming more challenging.”
Retailer Marks and Spencer will create 500 new UK jobs as it launches more than 50 branches of its new M&S Bank over the next two years.
Over two in five (41.4%) of new IT jobs are now to be found in London, a rise from when the capital accounted for just over a third (33.8%) in 2008.