Staff in the travel and transport sector have been the hardest hit by the recession, according to new figures.
The figures, from jobsite TipTopJob.com, found that 93% of jobseekers visiting the site from the transport and travel sector are facing redundancy, followed by 92% of construction, engineering and manufacturing jobseekers, and 84% of IT and telecoms workers.
Recruiters in Glasgow have welcomed a new initiative to allow commuters to use mobile phones while on the underground, allowing them to forge better links with candidates and clients alike.
Workers in Glasgow’s international financial services district can now make calls, send texts, email and access mobile internet while on subway station concourses and platforms across the city.
Business secretary Lord Mandelson plans to create 23,000 new jobs with a £35m Business Start Up programme in the North-West.
At a breakfast summit, addressing local business leaders in Salford, Mandelson offered support to 12,700 new businesses in the region.
A proposed meeting between a consortium of medical locum recruiters and Baroness Vadreah, minister for small business, to discuss the removal of the VAT staff hire concession, due to take place in December, has been put on hold.
The recruitment industry has defended itself against claims made in the national press that it is charging the NHS excessive hourly rates when providing temporary staff.
A report in the Daily Telegraph said that agencies were charging the NHS up to £116 an hour for agency nurses, and £157 an hour, the equivalent of £306,000 a year for a senior manager.
Victoria Walmsley
Operations director, Morgan McKinley’s financial services temp division
The Association of Executive Search Consultants (AESC) 2009 Member Outlook reports that several market sectors are expected to strengthen, despite the state of the world economy. Search consultants anticipate executive job opportunities to increase in healthcare (32%), government (30%), pharmaceuticals/biotech (26%), and natural resources (26%).
Newport needs long term investment ahead of the 2010 Ryder cup, say recruiters.
Headhunting executive public sector recruiter Solace Enterprises was “contributing to burgeoning pay packets for chief executives”, according to The Sunday Times newspaper.
The Sunday Times reports that Solace Enterprises has helped boost town hall bosses’ pay packets by 30% in four years.
Wakefield sales recruiter M2R has been invited to attend a trade delegation to Bahrain and chosen as a recruitment case study for UK Trade and Investment.
UKTI has invited M2R’s clients and also future potential business partners to the event after being impressed by their successful relationships with clients in the Middle East.