Mexico’s unemployment rate dropped in October on the same period last year but remained higher than before the 2009 recession, according to the country’s National Statistics Institute.
The unemployment rate remained at 5.7% from September but was lower than the 5.94% rate of October 2009.
International recruiter Hudson Highland Group has announced that chairman and chief executive Jon Chait is to retire from the firm following its annual meeting of shareholders next April.
The UK’s services sector continue to grow in November, according to the latest purchasing managers’ index from Markit/CIPS.
The index reveals that after accounting for seasonal factors, the headline Markit/CIPS Business Activity Index recorded 53 in November, slightly down on October’s 53.2. By remaining above the 50 no-change mark.
Specialist communications recruiter VMA Group has continued its recruitment drive with the appointment of six new staff members for its London and Manchester offices.
The Association of Executive Search Consultants (AESC), the worldwide professional organisation for retained executive search consulting, has released its 2010 report on executive search in transition.
Taking breakdown and motoring organisation AA’s recruitment process online and streamlining it has seen the number of completed applications roughly double to more than 30,000 in two years.
Since fully adopting StepStone Solutions’ iGRasp offering, the AA has also halved its time to hire from 77 days in 2006-07 to 37 now, according to Lorraine Lopez, HR resourcing manager.
Search Consultancy is opening new premises in Dundee.
The firm, which has had a presence in Dundee for more than 10 years, is moving to a new city centre location at City Quay.
Two-thirds of the 350,000 new jobs created in the UK this year have gone to young people aged under-35, with the remainder filled by people aged over 50.
One in five workers claim they will change jobs within a year due to dissatisfaction over pay, according to the ‘2010 Employee Attitudes to Pay’ survey from the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD).
The survey also reveals 57% would continue working as usual, while 7% say that they would work less hard and 2% plan to take industrial action.
