UK – The Barton Partnership acquires specialist search firm Sailing Stones

UK-based executive search firm The Barton Partnership has acquired specialist strategy search firm Sailing Stones, according to Hunt Scanlon Media.

Financial details of the deal were not released.

Ben Burney, founder and managing director of Sailing Stones, will join the Barton Partnership as Chief Client...

UK – Permanent placements fall for first time since 2016 amid Brexit uncertainty

Permanent placements in the UK have fallen for first time in two-and-a-half-years in January 2019 amid concerns over Brexit and a further deterioration in candidate availability, according to the latest Report on Jobs from the Recruitment and Employment Confederation and KPMG.

The report showed that companies...

France – Jobfeed publishes online job offers, commerce sector shows decline in 2018

Approximately 8 million unique job offers were online in 2018 in France, according to data from Jobfeed, Textkernel's big data tool for online vacancies.

The data is based on the analysis of millions of job offers collected by Jobfeed between 1 January and 31 December 2018 and included the detection and...

UK – Honda to cut hundreds of temporary jobs at Swindon plant (BBC News)

Japanese carmaker Honda will be letting go hundreds of temporary staff at its Swindon factory due to an "industry-wide decline" in the sale of diesel vehicles, reports BBC News. Honda denied the move was "as a result of Brexit" and "is in line with our current production plans"....

Germany – Amadeus FiRe’s full year revenue rises 11.5%, profits increase

German recruitment firm Amadeus FiRe AG (AADX: GER) announced that, in the fiscal year 2018, the group achieved consolidated sales of €205.8 million, up 11.5% compared to €184.5 million last year. The group added that all services provided by the Amadeus FiRe Group contributed to this positive overall...

UK – Gattaca provides trading update as international growth offsets UK stagnation

Specialist engineering and professional services staffing firm Gattaca (GATC:LSE) has provided a pre-close Trading Update for the six months to 31 January 2019.

The group delivered a 2% improvement in Net Fee Income (NFI) over the period. 

UK Engineering continued to perform positively in...

Luxembourg – CTG completes acquisition of Luxembourg-based Tech-IT

US-based IT staffing and solutions provider CTG (NASD: CTG) announced that it has successfully completed the acquisition of Luxembourg-based consulting and IT solutions company Tech-IT PSF S.A.

CTG first announced the transaction on 3 January 2019. CTG stated that it anticipates the...

Netherlands – Online vacancy ads up 44% in 2018

No fewer than 16,334,351  vacancy ads were placed online in the Netherlands for the full year 2018, an increase of 44% compared to 2017, according to figures from Jobfeed, Textkernel's big data tool for online vacancies.

in five job vacancy ads were in Zuid-Holland (South Holland). North Holland...

UK – Average advertised salaries at highest level since 2015, Adzuna finds

Average advertised salaries in the UK in December 2018 hit their highest point since April 2015, having risen 3.9% year-on-year to over £34,000, according to the latest Job Market Report from job search engine Adzuna. However, advertised vacancies also hit its lowest level since 2015, falling 2.9% in...

UK – Prime Minister seeks oppositions’ support with law giving UK workers same rights as EU (The Guardian)

Prime Minister Theresa May is expected to propose a draft bill guaranteeing that UK workers’ rights will keep pace with those in Europe in an attempt to get Labour MPs to back her Brexit deal, reports The Guardian. May could propose a new draft bill as early as next week which includes strengthened...