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Brighter times ahead for City?

Financial services recruitment is recovering after a prolonged slump, according to data from pre-employment screening firm Powerchex.

Technical recruiter Morson International has entered into a two-year partnership with Jobcentre Plus to offer specialist job search support to help newly unemployed technical engineering professionals across the UK get back to work.  

US recruiters and candidates can identify which cities are short of which occupations, courtesy of a supply and demand ranking by WANTED Technologies.

Procurement, supply chain and logistics specialists Proco Global Group has appointed Philip Donbavand to head up its supply chain division in London.

The former head of supply chain at rival recruiter Purcon will take responsibility for the direction and strategy of the division across the EMEA region.

More needs to be done to provide working mothers with flexible job opportunities and close the gender pay gap, according to social enterprise Women Like Us.

Multi-sector recruiter  McGinley Support Services Limited (MSS) has agreed a deal to act as a service partner for DHL.

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International recruiter Harvey Nash’s trading has been ‘broadly in line with expectations’, according to a trading update for the six months to 31 July 2009.

Executive search firm Carmichael Fisher has appointed Guy Adams as head of practice for legal recruitment in its London office.

Adams, previously a solicitor at legal firms Norton Rose, McGrigors and

Reynolds Porter Chamberlain, recently managed the international team at legal recruitment firm Taylor Root.

Multi-sector recruiter iD Staffing has appointed Helen Porter to lead its new retail sales division. 

The division will specialise in supplying temporary sales staff to retail stores in beauty, fashion and cosmetics.

Porter has worked with firms including The Arcadia Group, Aurora Fashions, House of Fraser, Tommy Hilfiger, Mulberry, Hackett, Nicole Farhi and Issey Miyake.

Around one in three workers do not trust their boss, according to new research from the Institute of Leadership & Management and Management Today magazine.

The research shows that 31% have low or no trust in their senior management teams.

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