Retailers have experienced their worst December since 1995, according to new figures.
The figures, from the British Retail Consortium, show that like-for-like sales from the highstreet and online in December were down 3.3% on a year ago, while total sales dropped by 1.4%.
The government’s £500m cash injection to get unemployed people for more than six months back to work does not go far enough, according to the chief executive of The Age and Employment Network (TAEN).
International executive search consultancy Neumann International has entered into an agreement with US executive search firm Pearson Partners International.
The alliance agreement offers Neumann “more formalised and intensified” North American coverage to its clients, Dr Andreas Benkitsch, Neumann’s chief financial officer, told Recruiter.
The tender deadline for NHS PASA’s (Purchasing & Supply Agency) non-medical, non-clinical temporary and fixed-term staff framework agreement has been extended by a week.
Francoise Gri, president of Manpower France, was presented last night with one of France’s most prestigious honours, for her contributions to business.
Teacher agencies are being hit as thousands of schools close due to snow and ice.
“Fewer teachers were being put into work,” says Dean Kelly chief executive officer of Synarbor, adding “I would expect we are probably looking at close to two days lost revenue across the company”.
Technical recruiter McGinley Recruitment Services’ turnover has reached £60m in 2008 and the company plans to grow by 10% in 2009.
It attributes the growth to entering into new markets including electrification, OLE, signalling, telecommunications and civil engineering, and “expanding delivery” in its existing sectors.
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UK jobs aggregator Workcircle has expanded internationally with the launch of sites in the US, India, China, Hong Kong, Australia, the Gulf and Dubai.
The sites assist local jobseekers and UK jobseekers looking for work abroad and will use a pay-per-click model which enables advertisers to pay by performance in these new regions.
