Food manufacturing and warehousing recruitment specialist Industrious has appointed Darren Davis and Lauren Parker as contract managers.
Davis will be located at the firm’s Sheffield office, while Parker will be based in Edinburgh.
Meanwhile, Industrious’s Leeds head office welcomes Philip Wagstaff as business development manager.
Despite UK companies reverting back to outsourcing call centre operations abroad, most customer facing roles are likely to remain in the UK, according to Mark Conway, director at Contact Centre Partners.
The six-month moratorium on drilling in the Gulf of Mexico, following the explosion of the Deepwater Horizon oil platform in April is hitting recruiters in the sector, according to the director of an oil and gas recruiter.
Employer demand for new workers was maintained in August, according to the latest Reed Job Index.
The index, which tracks the number of new job opportunities and salaries compared to the previous month and against a baseline of 100 set in December last year from reed.co.uk, gave a reading of 102, unchanged from last month.
Healthcare recruiter Pinnacle Staffing Group has completed the sale of its agency nursing and medical services business to Ambition subsidiary, Arabella Health Staffing,
One in four people would quit their job without securing a new post, according to research from assessment firm Psychtests.com.
The poll of 7,000 people also found 57% would change careers late in life, while 61% prefer working in a job environment where their work is constantly changing.
The coalition government’s National Insurance Contributions (NICs) ‘holiday’ does not go far enough to support business growth, according to Phil Handley, operations director at IT, engineering and legal recruiter IntaPeople.
Recruitment giant Hays will not renew contracts of job boards who do not channel all their candidates who apply for jobs posted by the agency directly to Hays.
Recruitment activity in the financial services sector fell by around 10% in August, according to data from Powerchex.
The research indicates the first month-on-month decrease so far this year.
Robin Clarke, director of international recruitment-to-recruitment firm JPA’s Asia Pacific office, is visiting the UK in October to advise UK recruitment consultants on moving to Australia.