Recruiters have claimed that a government investment will not reinvigorate some of the country’s high streets hit hardest by the recession.
Last week, the government announced that 57 local authorities will be given grants worth more than £50,000 each to help prevent their high streets from becoming ghost towns.
Alium Partnershas been awarded a place on NHS PASA’s (Purchasing & Supply Agency) commercial resources framework for the supply of senior level interim executives.
Mike Hollin, head of Alium Partners’ public sector practice, says: “We are delighted to formalise our long-term relationship with the NHS through being appointed as a supplier to the commercial resources framework.
Seven recruitment advertising firms have been wound up after an investigation found they were deceiving health trusts into paying for job adverts that had been already placed.
Representatives of the companies, which has similar names to long-established publications, were cold calling the trusts pretending to be verifying details of the job adverts.
Resourcing and senior HR professionals will be in demand come the recovery, according to recruiters.
A survey from IT and business services firm Logica this week showed that over a third of HR departments claim they do not have the necessary HR personnel in place to deal with an upturn.
Recruitment and professional services firm the ReThink Group has appointed Andy Lord as managing director of its recruitment brands.
Lord, one of the co-founders and executive directors of the group, was previously responsible of the Northern operations in the group.
execs4hire.com, an online service for consultants that places interim managers, has been launched.
The free resource currently provides recruiters with access to around 4,500 registered candidates regsitered at present, as well the ability to select and download up to 40 candidate CVs per month for free and post job details on the site for candidates to search and respond to.
Technical recruiter Harvey Nash has announed that it has reached an agreement with Fila & Myszel Associates (FMA) to merge their businesses under the Harvey Nash Alumni brand in Europe.
Technical, engineering and IT recruiter NES reported positive end-of-year results with a 24% increase in profits.
For the year ending 31 October, profits increased from £9.7m to £12m and revenues climbed 16% from £217.1m to £252.8m.
Recruiters are hopeful rather than optimistic following yesterday’s cut in interest rates.
The Bank of England has cut interest rates to their lowest levels ever. Recruiter went back to the three recruiters who were cautiously optimistic after the last cut in December.
Job vacancies for students graduating this summer have fallen by almost a fifth – and most have already been filled, according to a new report.
Market research firm High Fliers said many employers started scaling back graduate recruitment plans a year ago, and half had downgraded their targets for this year.