Will Group 9-month revenue falls 4.3% while profits tumble

Japanese HR firm Will Group (6089:TYO), which focuses on temporary staffing, business contracting and recruitment, reported revenue today of JPY 103.91 billion (USD 702.9 million) for the nine months ended 31 December 2023, a decrease of 4.3% when compared to the same period last year.

Australian job ads down 13% in January amid cooling labour market

Job advertisements in Australia decreased by 13% year-on-year in January 2024 on a seasonally adjusted basis, according to ANZ-Indeed job ads data published on ANZ Bank.

ANZ-Indeed Australian job ads rose 1.7% month-on-month in January following an upward revision in December to 0.6% month-on-month from...

Employment expands across Singapore in Q4 amid lower layoffs

Singapore’s labour market continued to expand in the fourth quarter of 2023 with the total employment growing, while layoffs eased, according to the Ministry of Manpower.

Total employment (excluding migrant domestic workers) continued to grow for the ninth consecutive quarter, expanding by 8,400 in...

Seasonally adjusted jobless rate improves in Taiwan

Taiwan’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate fell to 3.41% in October 2023, down from 3.64% in October 2022, according to data from the Directorate General of Budget Accounting and Statistics (DGBAS).

On a non-seasonally adjusted basis, compared with the previous year, the unemployment rate declined...

TechnoPro Holdings Q1 revenue climbs 10.7% with profits up

TechnoPro Holdings Inc. (6028:TYO), a Tokyo-based provider of engineering staffing, reported revenue today of JPY 55.1 million (USD 370.6 million) in its fiscal second quarter ended 31 December 2023.

Nisso Corp 9-month revenue rises 7.9%

Nisso Corp. (6569:TYO), a Japan-based staffing firm, reported revenue for the first nine months of fiscal 2023 of JPY 72.53 billion (USD 487.8 million), which ended 31 December 2023.

The group did not publish prior year results for comparison. However, results for last year’s nine-month period,...

India white-collar hiring slips 11% in January

White-collar hiring in India lowered by 11% in January 2024 when compared to January 2023, according to the latest Naukri JobSpeak Index.

The Index stood at 2,455 for January 2024, up 1% compared to December 2023.

Medical/healthcare/hospital (7%), travel & hospitality (5%) and FMCG (fast-moving consumer...

Skills shortages impact recruitment in Japan, Singapore and Hong Kong

Most technology hiring managers (76%) found recruitment ‘very’ or ‘quite’ competitive across Japan, Singapore and Hong Kong, according to research from Morgan McKinley.

The research also identified key challenges and showed that 25% of hiring managers cited a shortage of skilled candidates...

Quess Corp Q3 revenue climbs 8.4% while EBITDA rises

Quess Corp. Ltd. (QUESS:NSI), the India-based provider of staffing and managed outsourcing services, on Friday reported revenue from operations increased by 8.4% year-over-year in its fiscal third quarter ended 31 December. Revenue from operations was INR 48.41 billion (USD 583.1 million).

TwoStone & Son to buy engineer matching service Maple Systems

Japanese staffing firm, TwoStone & Son (7352: TYO), previously known as Branding Engineer, announced in January that it will acquire all of the shares of Maple Systems, a company that provides IT engineer job matching services.

The total price of the deal is JPY 352 million (USD 2.4 million). On 29...