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Online recruitment activity contunued to decline in March, according to the Monster Employment Index.
The UK Index slumped by seven points in March as online demand dropped on February.
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Recruiters have welcomed the government’s commitment of £525m for offshore wind projects over the next two years in this year’s Budget.
Multi-sector recruiter Randstad has backed £1.7bn extra funding for the Job Centre network, as announced in yesterday’s Budget.
The average time taken to make appointments within the financial services sector has doubled to six weeks since last September, according to a survey by Joslin Rowe.
The survey of 3,100 placements confirms that financial services has been particularly affected by the downturn, which hit the sector with a vengeance after the collapse of Lehman Brothers.
Manual labour: more British nationals are applying
Albert Ellis, chief executive of Harvey Nash, and a number of his fellow directors have acquired shares in the company.
Recruiter input sought
Recruiters have an opportunity to make their voices heard in shaping the terms and conditions of how the European Agency Workers Directive is implemented in the UK.
Dubai could scrap 27 building projects, according to the head of its real estate regulator.??
Marwan bin Ghalita, the head of the Real Estate Regulatory Agency (Rera), told news website Emirates Business 24-7 that a decision would be made by the end of the month. “The decision has not been made. There are projects all over Dubai – third -party projects (sub developers).”
London-based secretarial specialist Matchstick Recruitment has joined forces with the charity to help people in its work experience programmes find paid employment once the programmes are complete.