Multi-sector recruiter iD Staffing has appointed Helen Porter to lead its new retail sales division.
The division will specialise in supplying temporary sales staff to retail stores in beauty, fashion and cosmetics.
Porter has worked with firms including The Arcadia Group, Aurora Fashions, House of Fraser, Tommy Hilfiger, Mulberry, Hackett, Nicole Farhi and Issey Miyake.
Around one in three workers do not trust their boss, according to new research from the Institute of Leadership & Management and Management Today magazine.
The research shows that 31% have low or no trust in their senior management teams.
International recruiter Hays reported a 43% drop in profits to £151m for the 12 months to the end of June as net fees plunged by 18%. However, the company says the UK jobs market is stabilising.
Global executive search firm Signium International has bought Tessera Executive Search, a retained-based executive search firm, with offices in Toronto, Canada, Dubai, the UAE and Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
Public sector employment rose by 13,000 in the second quarter of the year, according to figures released by the Office for National Statistics. In comparison, employment in the private sector fell by 230,000.
But despite fears of cutbacks in the public sector, recruiters say there are no signs that the market is about to implode.
The UK economy will enter into a period of modest growth, in the third and fourth quarters of this year, according to the Confederation of British Industry.
The CBI says that UK GDP will post quarter-on-quarter growth of 0.3% in 2009 Q3, increasing by 0.4% into Q4 as consumers bring spending forward ahead of the VAT increase in January.
Technical recruiter Encore Personnel Services has recorded its largest volume of temporary workers booked in one week.
Jobseekers are increasingly prepared to fund their own career development, according to a new poll by recruitment processing outsourcing provider Elemense.
The poll shows that 30% of candidates, working or looking for work, have used their own money during the recession to acquire new skills in their own time to help them get new jobs or keep their current one.
Up to 2,000 candidates attended the third Working Worlds Careers Fair in the virtual universe of Second Life, organised by Luxembourg-based GAX Technologies. Recruiter dropped in on the event where candidates and prospective employers rubbed shoulders in the guise of their computer-generated avatars in a space-age environment specially created for the event.
Thousands of job losses were announced yesterday, the majority of which will hit the City.
Nomura, the Japanese bank that recently acquired some of collapsed investment bank Lehman Brothers’ operations, said it would cut 1,000 jobs in London.
Commerzbank, which is not due to complete its acquisition of Dresdner Kleinwort until next year, announced 1,200 redundancies in the City.