Travel recruiters have urged airlines to be flexible with staff rather than cut jobs or risk a talent shortfall.
Last week Virgin Atlantic announced it would cut 600 jobs while in the last month BA asked its staff to work without pay for a month.
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First there was Bob Geldof and Live Aid … now senior executives of leading UK recruitment advertising agencies have formed RecAid to raise funds for colleagues who lost redundancy pay when advertising agency Barkers went into administration recently.
Financial recruiter ABPM Recruitment has relocated its Leeds operation to new office premises in Wakefield. The move sees the firm take space in the St John’s Business Centre on St John’s North in the city centre.
US executive search consultancy Stanton Chase International is expanding its global presence with four new offices located in Brussels (Belgium), Sofia (Bulgaria), Lagos (Nigeria) and Toronto (Canada).
Candidates should be warned if social networking sites are being used as part of the screening process, according to Adrian Marlowe at legal consultancy Lawspeed.
Business assessment tools provider Thomas International is partnering with online outplacement support tool mynewjob.me.
The new partnership will allow UK businesses to access support and help for employees they have to let go due to the current economic climate.
Lord Mandelson has been urged to use taxpayers’ money to aid innovation rather than bailing out dying industries, according to a Kingston University report commissioned by Lord Mandelson’s Department of Business, Innovation and Skills.
More than 55,000 jobseekers are expected to participate in a global research project in a joint venture between job board Totaljobs.com, market researcher Intelligence Group and The Network, an alliance of 36 job boards from more than 100 countries.
Recruitment software specialist Dillistone Group has signed two new contracts to supply its Filefinder 9 system to executive search and selection companies.
The first contract is with public sector support consultancy, Tribal Group. The second deal involves supplying the software to GSI Executive Search, the executive search division of The GMP Group of Singapore.