Multi-sector recruiter Recruitment Holdings (RHL) has acquired engineering and technical recruiter Encore Technical Solutions.
The company will operate as a division of RHL and continue to trade under the name Encore.
The deal includes five employees who work at Encore.
Graduates and school leavers face a tough labour market, according to the Chartered Institiute of Personnel and Development CIPD/KPMG Labour Market Outlook report.
Recruitment training and performance development firm Lander Associates has agreed a partnership with multilingual recruiter Euro London Appointments to develop and deliver a bespoke training and development programme for its employees in the UK and continental Europe.
Who has gone that extra mile? Who has over-delivered and exceeded the expectations of your client? Who is that temp you know you can rely on when the going gets tough?
Recruitment is taking a back seat to training and development, according to a survey by the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD).
The survey shows that the key resourcing challenge remains a lack of necessary specialist skills for 73%, while 56% plan to focus on retaining rather than recruiting talent in response.
A website company set up to offer work experience and internships to jobseekers is offering recruiters a way of making money from their candidate pool.
Multi-sector recruiter Anne Corder Recruitment (ACR) is in the second phase of its hiring for AB Agri’s Peterborough-based customer service centre.
The entire welfare to work system needs to be overhauled, so says a new report from the Social Market Foundation.
The think tank says that the government’s current efforts to get people off benefits and into long term work are failing.
It calls for:
Bumper June retail sales figures have indicated that confidence could be returning to the stricken high street, according to retail recruiters.
High street sales rose by 1.2% in June, according to the Office for National Statistics.
Manufacturing confidence rose for the second consecutive month in June, according to the CIPS/Markit Purchasing Managers’ Index.
The index hit 50.8 in July, up from an upwardly revised figure of 47.4 in June. on the back of new orders growing at their fastest rate for 20 months. This is the first time the index has been above the no change mark of 50 since March 2008.