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Post office to hire thousands of Christmas temps

The Post Office has announced that it will be hiring 18,000 extra temporary staff this Christmas. Last year they ended up hiring over 20,000 temps to cater for the extra Christmas workload and then the additional workload caused by the snowfalls. It is great temp work in a time of need in the UK.

Public sector interims (temps) reduce their rates

The majority of interim public sector managers have reduced their daily rates as a result of less requirement for them. Gatenby Sandrerson (the Interim recruiter) suggested in a recent report that they may have reduced their rates by as much as 30%. Apparently average day rates sit between £500 and £800 a day.

Public sector needs IT staff

IT recruitment firm Computer People runs an employment monitoring system that has shown that IT recruitment is up almost 6% in the public sector. Despite the consistent job cuts in the sector it would seem that IT staff are still needed to work on vital projects. The IT industry is one of the biggest and most lucrative temporary employment markets in the UK. Although this news is very slight in the grand scheme of things it is still positive news and most probably down to the new budgets that have been released since April.

West Midlands NHS announces jobs

NHS West Midlands health authority is creating 467 new front line jobs despite other jobs across the region being cut as the authority faces austerity measures. New health visitor posts to improve child and family health in the community will play a more regular and larger role in checking the safety of children when they going into homes.

Private sector unable to balance the job deficit

One of the UK’s largest recruiters of temporary and permanent staff, Hays, has announced that the increase in private sector employment is not enough to counter the fall in public sector employment.

The recruiter has experienced 27% growth in net fees from the private sector for the final 6 months of 2010 and in contrast a 36% decline in net fees from the public sector.

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