France – Pôle Emploi criticised for interviewing candidates in a reality TV-style competition

Pôle Emploi, the French government agency that registers unemployed people, is being criticised for holding job interviews inspired by reality singing competition shows like The Voice.

According to Street Press, footage emerged of a set-up identical to the competition reality TV show The Voice, where...

UK – Empresaria Group appoints new COO

Empresaria Group plc, the London-based specialist staffing firm, announced that it has appointed Rhona Driggs to its Board of Directors as Chief Operating Officer with effect from 5 November 2018.

Driggs brings 28 years' experience of working in international companies within the staffing sector. Driggs...

Netherlands – The Brisker Group acquires Nextpayroll

The Brisker Group, an HR services provider based in the Netherlands, announced that it has acquired Nextpayroll, a Dutch firm providing back office support for intermediaries including temporary employment agencies, recruitment & selection agencies and secondment agencies.

The agreement for the acquisition...

Spain – Christmas season to bring in a record 400,000 temporary work contracts, Randstad finds

This Christmas season is set to generate more than 400,000 temporary work contracts in Spain, an increase of 8.3% over last year and the highest number in history, according to data from Randstad Spain.

The temporary jobs are set to be created in the Christmas season running from November to January and...

World – CTG revenue rises 22% with fastest growth in European operations

Revenue rose 21.9% at US-based IT staffing and solutions provider CTG (NASD: CTG). A combination of factors drove the increase: organic growth in both solutions and staffing in North America and Europe, as well as the revenue from Paris-based Soft Co., which the company acquired in February.

The Buffalo,...

UK – Recruitment industry video showing jet-set lifestyle goes viral after being ridiculed online

A London-based recruitment firm saw its video, which depicts a summer incentive in which its employees go on a luxury holiday, become the target of ridicule after it went viral.

The 43-second video, produced by recruitment firm Haigh Associates, shows six young men in a montage of the men walking into...

Ireland – Brexit caution sparks decrease in professional job vacancies in September

The availability of professional jobs in Ireland decreased by 2% in September when compared to August, according to data from the latest Morgan McKinley Irish Employment Monitor.

Trayc Keevans, Global Foreign Direct Investment Director at Morgan McKinley Ireland, said there was caution ahead of Brexit...

UK – Amazon to create over 1,000 ‘Silicon Valley jobs’ in the UK (BBC News)

Online retail giant Amazon announced plans to create more than 1,000 jobs in the UK in Manchester, Edinburgh and Cambridge, reports BBC News.  At least 600 "highly skilled" roles will be added in Manchester working on software, machine learning and Amazon Web Services, its cloud computing...

Greece – New jobs creation at highest level since 2001, but more than half are part-time (Greek Reporter)

During the first nine months of 2018 there were 2.05 million new hires and 1.76 million job exits (including dismissals, retirements and resignations), leaving a positive balance of 288,369, the largest amount of new positions created since 2001, reports the Greek Reporter, citing data from the Greek...

UK – Recruitment sector expected to have record high number of agency start-ups by end of year

2018 is set to be a record-breaking year for recruitment agencies in the UK as than 10,000 start-ups are expected have been registered by the end of the year, a record-high for the sector, according to research from Clearly PR and Marketing.

The research, which used data obtained from Companies House...