The Met office’s revised assessment to a wet British summer has come too late to affect the UK’s hospitality sector adversely, according to recruiters.
Jacqui Sterry, managing director at Mise en Place, told Recruiter: “It is so late in the day. People will stick to their original plans. They will stick to whatever they have booked.”
Delays in the sale of Gatwick Airport is a mixed blessing which would put the brakes on recruitment but force BAA to reevaluate its succession planning, according to recruiters.
Last week, BAA, which has been told by the Competiton Commission that it must sell three of its seven UK airports, said they did not need to sell London Gatwick.
Healthcare recruiter Allied Healthcare International has recorded ‘good growth’ in its financial results for its third quarter to June.
Revenues were $63.1m (£37.5m), while gross profit was $19.2m.
Sandy Young, chief executive of Allied Healthcare, says: “We continue to see good growth in our homecare business, which now represents almost 84% of our business.
Darren James: Bad hiring costs, he says
On-demand performance and talent management solutions provider SuccessFactors has appointed Peter Prestele as vice president of EMEA enterprise
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New apprenticeships should focus on the basic core hospitality skills, according to recruiters.
Last week, the Prince’s Trust annouced a range of new training schemes for school leavers.?
The downturn has led to an increase in agencies jumping on the charity job bandwagon
As housing applications stabilise, there are chinks of light emerging for construction recruiters.
Firms are increasingly looking to social networking site Twitter as a more economical means of e-marketing, according to Deborah Collier, chief strategist at e-business consultancy Echo E-Business.
Recruitment giant Randstad has introduced a salary offsetting service to enable small businesses to reduce their costs without having to cut headcount.