Networking solutions firm Cisco is investing €26m (£21.1m) and creating 115 new research & development (R&D) roles at its Galway facility.
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International recruitment group Randstad posted revenues of €4,152.4m (£3,385m) in Q1, a 12% change on the same period in 2011, and gross profit also rose by 12% to €748.2m.
ManpowerGroup has signed a contract to provide recruiting service to the Australian Defence Force (ADF) from November, worth at least A$400m (£257m) over five years.
US temporary and contract employment was 6.9% higher in April than in the same month in 2011, according to the ASA (American Staffing Association) Staffing Index.
Mansfield & Associates, a research-driven executive search firm with offices across the US in Cleveland, Fort Myers and Minneapolis, as well as Budapest in Hungary, has opened a Chicago office.
Executive search firm Pedersen & Partners has strengthened its Gulf and Saudi Arabian presence with two promotions.
Recruiters in the UK are the most likely to post jobs on social networks, according to a survey of 65,000 users of recruitment software provider Bullhorn.
Rec-to-rec firm Aston Taylor has appointed Andrea Saunders as managing director.
Recruitment and HR consultancy Independent has appointed Chris Walton as a senior resourcer and Rachel Faerestrand as a resourcing assistant.
The 2012 Budget has rarely left the headlines since it was first announced. For recruitment businesses there were a number of announcements that should be noted and acted on when the time is right.