Reasons to be more cheerful? Just mind the funding gap

Whether seeking new finance for development or funding to bridge the gap before being paid, Scott Beagrie discovers there is an increased appetite to fund recruiters

With the public sector cuts offsetting any real financial feel-good factor associated with the economic recovery, it is difficult to sum up the mood of the moment. David Roust, head of the recruitment industry team at Barclays Corporate, perhaps best encapsulates it when he says: “I sense not optimism but people are not as pessimistic as they were.”

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