Tag: Recruitment
Recruiters confident for IT contract market recovery
The market for IT contract jobs remains healthy and is predicted to recover strongly from the second English national lockdown, according to reports at...
Gaming sector proves resilient during pandemic
Job vacancies in the gaming sector continue to rise, driven by a boom in sales during covid-related lockdowns, according to a new report by...
Nearly 700,000 less on payroll in August
The official UK unemployment rate rose to 4.1 per cent in the three months to July, up 0.2 percentage points from the previous quarter....
Demand for IT contractors continues to rise as temp billings reach...
Demand for contingent IT staff continued to improve in August, declining at its slowest rate for five months, whilst temporary worker billings reached a...
Job postings reach 1.1 million
The number
of job adverts posted in the UK continued its upward trend in August, with the
total number of active vacancies rising to 1.12 million...
Business confidence neutral to positive despite coronavirus
Over half
of business executives believe that the covid-19 pandemic has had a neutral to
positive impact on business confidence, according to a global study of...
Amazon to create 1000 jobs in Ireland
Tech giant Amazon has announced plans to create one thousand jobs in Ireland over the next two years, bringing the size of the company’s Irish...
Demand for IT contractors predicted to soar post-lockdown
As Britain emerges from its Covid-19 lockdown and into the “new normal”, business will become increasingly reliant on technology, boosting demand for IT contractors,...
Contractor pay takes a hit as recruitment activity continues to dwindle
Rates of pay for contingent workers fell at the fastest month-on-month rate for eleven years in May, whilst permanent placements and temp billings both...
Demand for staff falls for first time in over a decade
The COVID-19 outbreak has caused a sharp drop in recruitment activity across both the permanent and temporary sectors, according to the latest Report on Jobs published...