Four months after the implementation of the Agency Workers Regulations (AWR) the position of limited company contractors remains an area of deep of uncertainty.
The UK services sector saw the largest one-month gain in business confidence since the Markit/CIPS UK Services Purchasing Managers Index (PMI) started in 1996, up nearly seven points to 70.3 in January’s data.
Tour operator Club Med is recruiting in the UK for French speakers to work on its 2012 spring-summer season.
Tourism industry jobs are recovering to near pre-recession levels, as self-employment in the sector becomes more prevalent.
Placement figures from multi-sector rec-to-rec firm McCall show to a rise in technical jobs, with the public sector hit.
Recruiters not able to attend the AWR summit being held in London today will have an opportunity to actively participate.
Oil giant BP will take on 244 graduates in 2012, an increase of 50% on its previous recruitment drive.
Military service leavers recruitment consultancy ForceSelect hopes to offer 160 jobs at event crewing firm Gallowglass to Gurkhas, who bore the brunt of the latest military cuts announced.
Specialist technical recruiter Fircroft is to open a new office in Blythe Valley Business Park, Solihull later this month.
Recruiter BCL Legal placed 430 candidates in 2011, a rise of 18% on the previous year.
Unemployment rates in December 2011 were lower in 329 out of 372 US metropolitan areas than in the same month in 2010, according to the Bureau of Labour Statistics.
Health and social care staffing provider Healthcare Locums has appointed Sue Bygrave as chief finance officer (CFO).
Mark McFall has been appointed to the newly-created role of managing director of Change Recruitment Group’s domestic business.
Global life sciences interim management and executive recruiter RSA has promoted John Callagher to the position of head of EMEA, Kay Wardle to the position of managing director of RSA Executive Search and Darren Spevick to client relationship director, EMEA.
Banking and City recruiters say London Mayor Boris Johnson’s call for French banks to bring their jobs to London could actually be a more realistic proposal than it might seem on the surface.
International energy saving solutions firm Mark Group has opened a new depot outside Aberdeen, which will create 50 new jobs.
New jobs in January were 9% higher than the previous year, despite decline in demand in a number of sectors from banking to energy, reports the Reed Job Index.
Oil & gas salaries in the UK are 8% higher than the worldwide average, according to the Global Salary Guide produced by jobs site Oil and Gas Job Search and Hays Oil & Gas.
Built environment recruiter The Shore Group today (1 February) opens an office in Victoria in London.
A drop of 7.4% in the number of people applying to universities and a rise in apprenticeships attests to a shift in the way young people are thinking about careers, and forces employers to search differently for entry-level talent.