Advertised IT vacancies fell below 1992 levels in Q4 2008 and are rapidly approaching 1991 recession figures.
SSL and Computer Weekly found that there were 24.3% fewer jobs advertised between October to December, compared with the previous three months.
The Association of Social Work Employment Busineses (ASWEB) is set to become the official REC (Recruitment & Employment Confederation) sector group for social work within the next few weeks.
The international executive search firm has appointed three new partners and co-owners, bringing the total number of partners to seven.
Evita Lune joined Pedersen & Partners in 2005 and oversees Latvia and Estonia, as well as playing a major role in carrying out management recruitment projects in the Baltics. She is based in Riga, Latvia.
The 2012 Olympics will boost lower level hospitality roles and not necessarily apprenticeships, recruiters have claimed.
Brian Wisdom, chief executive of sector skills council for hospitality People 1st, has called upon employers to recruit apprenticeships to bridge the employment gap in areas such as chefs, customer service teams and managers.
Recruiters have been urged to focus on the recruitment process rather than the placement outcome by business consultant Jeff Grout.
Speaking at an event organised by recruitment website development firm 4MAT at Dartmouth House in London, Grout said that recruiters should prioritise KPIs (key performance indicators).
Newport Wales-based specialist search and selection company Agg Jones Search and Selection has secured equity and debt co-investment from Finance Wales, HSBC and the Welsh Assembly Government as part of a £475,000 expansion.
Unemployment among IT contractors is only half of what it was following the dot.com crash of five years ago, according to research from contractor services provider giant group.
The research shows that at the end of 2003, 13% of IT contractors were unemployed for 90 days or more. This compares with 7.5% in giant’s latest survey.
Ten recruiters in Manchester and the surrounding area have been issued with warnings for breaking employment law rules.
Following recent investigations by the Employment Agency Standards Inspectorate, investigators found the agencies were in breach of regulations, covering over 30 infringements of the law.
The worst infringements include:
* withholding pay from workers
Spring Technology, the IT and technology division of international recruiter Spring Group, has appointed Sean Young as its new head of permanent recruitment, based in its London head office.
Eutopia’s chief executive Craig Coverman had to leave last month’s Recruiter Awards early, due to a business trip the next day, and found himself trying to get into the car park of London’s Grosvenor House Hotel, which was being locked for the night, along with the event’s host, comedian Michael McIntyre.