Multi-sector recruiter Omega Consultancy Services is extending its training service for newly unemployed professionals nationally, following a successful partnership with the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP).
Omega has supported over 400 candidates in the South West and the Midlands since it partnered with the DWP in April.
The Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) is warning against imposing statutory restrictions on maximum working hours after the European Parliament voted against Britain’s opt out from the Working Time Directive.
Banking, commerce and industry, secretarial and IT recruiter Contact Recruitment has cut 14 jobs in London, and is closing its Dublin business as a result of deteriorating market conditions.
“It’s going to be a tough year ahead, and we need to batten down the hatches now,” Uzair Bawany, Contact Recruitment’s managing director told Recruiter.
IT contractors want greater flexibility from fee structures in on-going assignments. Members of the Professional Contractors Group told Recruiter a percentage of agency fees should be transferred to them when contracts are renewed.
Hays Education has announced that it is to open new offices across the UK to cater for the continued demand from schools for education and teaching staff.
Trinity Mirror has relaunched its jobsite network. The new platform, developed by software firm Madgex, includes mini sites, enhanced recruiter branding, keyword sponsorship and a CV database. The platform enhances the usability and speed of the jobsites, with a view to increasing audience volumes and responses for recruiters.
Marketers joining the workforce will have to face up to the fact that they may have to work harder for less. That’s the message from specialist marketing recruiter EMR, which says that with a bigger pool of talent to fish from, employers are looking at those people who can make a positive difference to the bottom line.
Robert Thesiger has resigned as chief executive of the Imprint Group, according to a statement released late yesterday by the board of recruitment services firm Premier Group, Imprint’s parent company.
Colin Webster, Imprint’s chief financial officer, has also stepped down, the statement said.
Both have also resigned from their positions on the Premier Group board.
Energy giant British Gas has announced it will expand its green workforce in 2009, with the creation of 1,400 jobs.
Stephen Nickson, managing director of energy sector recruiter DATS, told Recruiter: “We would love to work on the project. Anything of this magnitude will hopefully trickle down and encourage other project to come online.”
Recruiters have identified pockets of demand as trade volumes in manufacturing sustain a “rapid deterioration”.
The Confederation of British Industry’s quarterly Industrial Trends Survey, found 56% of companies were reporting a fall in the volume of new orders in Q4 of 2008, compared with the previous quarter, and just 14% reporting a rise - the lowest balance since July 1991.