The London 2012 games will create 30,000 jobs, the government is due to announce later today, according to the Metro newspaper.
Elsewhere, high-end supermarket Waitrose has announced that 4,000 new employees will be joining the John Lewis Partnership.
A new jobsite, search.co.uk, which only charges advertisers for ‘quality’ applications within targeted geographic limits, has been launched.
While opportunities fall away in Dubai, hospitality recruiters see Abu Dhabi, the US and Africa as growth areas for the sector this year.
Mark Norris, chief executive at Profile, told Recruiter: “Dubai has an eerie feel about it, as many of the cranes have fallen silent and a good few projects have gone on hold.
Medical agencies will no longer have to go through NHS Professionals when supplying medical locums and doctors to the NHS.
A bulletin sent to agencies says that from 1 April NHS Trusts “will deal directly with your agency in regards to the booking of your staff”.
The Interim Management Association (IMA) has launched the IMA Institute, giving interim managers individual membership of the IMA for the first time.
Jason Atkinson, deputy chair of IMA, told Recruiter that the Institute was “the most important initiative the IMA had set up since its founding 20 years ago”.
Tom Coulter Management consultant, Discover Retail
The annual National Online Recruitment Audience Survey (NORAS) surveyed over 50,000 online jobseekers. The survey shows that one in seven jobseekers exclusively use the internet to look for jobs, a figure up from one in 11 a year ago and more than double the figure of one in 16 in 2007.
Online hiring activity showed signs of recovery in February, according to the Monster Employment Index.
Following a quarter of contraction, the index grew by 6 points.
Activity was driven by openings in education, training and library and management and consulting sectors.
UK interviewers are the least likely to check social networking sites, new research from talent management consultancy DDI shows.
The research shows only 12% of interviewers claimed to do so. Their German counterparts are almost twice as likely as any other country to conduct online searches, while 46% say they use this technique to make hiring decisions.
