The economy may be bumping along the bottom, but you wouldn’t have guessed it as recruiters came together earlier this month at London’s Grosvenor House Hotel for the Recruiter Awards for Excellence 2012, headline sponsored by Eploy.
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Healthcare and social care are the most expensive industries in terms of costs around candidate compliance, averaging between £400 and £600 each, shows research from compliance service NowWeComply.
The next most expensive sectors were finance & banking and oil, gas & energy (cost for both industries ranging from £200-£325), and transport (£150-£225).
Recruitment firms have been recognised in the UK’s 2012 Great Workplaces Guide.
Recruitment agencies have a key role to play in maintaining the flexibility of the UK labour market, but workforce flexibility alone is not enough to fuel an economic recovery.
Prisoners in Malaysia will be employed to do laundry for the National Service Training Department, in a move, which is hoped to make it easier for offenders to find work after their release.
Multi-sector recruiter Ashton Consulting has appointed Bekah Firman and Mike Morris.
Recruitment database supplier Colleague Software has appointed Jonathan Broadley as a new software developer and Khalil Badat as a technical support analyst.
Recruiters must convince employers to examine and amend their perceptions of people who have been made redundant as “the junk bonds of the workplace”, a leading US human resources consultant has urged.
Oil and gas recruiter Swift Worldwide Resources has recently opened an office in Accra, Ghana and has initiated moves to set up in Iraq by the end of 2012.
International recruiter Hays has appointed Nigel Heap as UK & Ireland managing director.