Hospitality and leisure recruiter Rubicon Search and Selection has launched a new executive search division.
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Lord Mandelson, business secretary, has announced a review of productivity and skills across the sector to “help British firms”.
Kirsty Hall, team leader at technical recruiter rgb, told Recruiter she thought the review was necessary:
The public sector is now the second biggest employer of accountancy contractors in the UK, according to new research.
The research, from contract services provider Giant Group, shows 37% of accountancy contractors are employed by the government, up from 34% in the last quarter.
Employment minister Pat McFadden visted hospitality recruiter Admiral Group and sat with temporary agency workers on site yesterday.
The move comes after a campaign highlighting agency workers’ plight, which met with a mixed response from recruiters (Recruiter, 18 February).
Diversified Search Ray & Berndtson has appointed Richard Krell as managing director to head the firm’s new Los Angeles office.
Payments were made to a Swiss bank account from an IT recruiter involved in a £675,000 fraud of RBS Invoice Finance.
Southwark Crown Court heard that during the summer of 2006, payments totalling a five-figure sum were transferred from IT recruiter Quo Vadis Technology to a Geneva bank account of Mark Starling, from the Chelmsford area of Essex.
Two-thirds of interim managers questioned in a survey claim they are struggling as a result of the recession.
According to the second ‘Recession and the Interim Manager’ survey of 10,000 interims from interim management provider, Russam GMS, only 31% of interims said they had not been affected by current market conditions.
Kathleen Smith, director at Preferred IT, the company that won the award, told Recruiter: “We have a very well developed back office support team. They sit on the main floor of the office and the department heads all come from a recruitment background.”
Smith added the company’s focus on credit control had meant the last time it incurred a bad debt was five years ago.
Sales and recruitment consultancy Bill Boorman is to host an international recruitment sales competition this Wednesday.
The competition, which will run in the UK, US and Australia opens at 9.45am (in the UK, US and Australia, opening times tbc) with a 15-minute conference call explaining details of the structure and rules of the day.
Temp workers
Today is the deadline for recruiters to enter Recruiter’s search for the UK’s best temporary/interim workers.