ONLINE RECRUITMENT NEWS

Dot com millionaire, John Witney, 39, who launched Jobserve, the first ever ëjobs by emailí service, looks set to once more revolutionise recruitment advertising with his new mobile text alerts service, Jobstel.

Higher confidence among IT budget holders in the U.K. and a general improvement in business conditions have led to 42% of respondents believing that their IT budgets will be larger in 2004.

TruStar Solutions and AIRS have partnered together to offer the best-in-class web-based outplacement tool ñ AIRS Horizons.

Jigsaw job filling has been slammed by a new recruitment agency carving out a niche in the marketing sector.

Reward managers have the best paid jobs in the personnel profession, earning twelve per cent more than the average salary for the profession.

Desktop security application complements antivirus systems, closing window of exposure to prevalent security challenges identified in Websense’s latest Harris Interactive Web@Work survey

Eighty-eight percent of employers are ignoring doctors’ advice, by stating a heavy cold is not a good enough reason to take time off work, according to a survey by Croner, one of the UK’s leading providers of business information and advice.

Incentive World 2004, the UK’s largest promotional marketing, incentive and motivation event has generated positive feedback from many exhibitors that the quality of visitors that attended the exhibition was impressive.

Leading Staffing Management Solutions Provider Will Underwrite Three Key Learning Tracks ñ Diane Pardee, Senior Vice President of Marketing &Communication appointed to the Board

At this year’s Professional Pensions Awards, City-based Pensions Recruitment Consultancy The Sammons Group won the award for UK Pensions Recruitment Consultancy of the Year 2004.

the hotgroup plc (hot), the AIM listed recruitment specialist, is expanding its fast growing online business, hotonline ltd, with two further acquisitions: JobsFinancial.com and Gisajob.com, for a total of 1,230,000 in cash and share deals.

The arrival of migrant workers from the EU accession states will help to relieve upwards pressure on wages, without creating downward pressure.

Best Western, the largest group of independently owned hotels in Great Britain, has launched a new recruitment website in conjunction with caterer.com.

In many sectors there has always been a clear distinction between permanent íworkersí who are on the payroll and ísubbiesí, self-employed jobbing or hourly paid subcontractors trading on their own account. Not any more.

Trade unions continue to lead the trend in reducing employment tribunals claims by solving more problems in the workplace. But the TUC is concerned that non-union members will suffer under government reforms designed to cut tribunal applications.