Nearly 7,000 council jobs are cut

Nearly 7,000 jobs have been cut by councils in England in the last six months, according to Local Government Association (LGA) figures.

The LGA said three in five local authorities had made staff reductions since the end 2007 and a similar number plan to cut posts in the next year.

It said the recession had hit hard. Income is expected to drop by £2.5bn, leading to “difficult decisions”.

Unison said it was appalling that council workers faced joblessness.

Nearly half of councils which made cuts said senior management posts were axed.

Source: BBC 

JobDaddy comes to Twitter

There’s always another buzz website or application that everyone is using to share information and at the moment it is Twitter.

As part of our programme to reach a wider audience, JobDaddy has joined Twitter – the latest social networking craze.

Twitter is a simple but surprisingly effective and addictive way of communicating.

For JobDaddy this means we can post links to specific sections of our website, such as jobs, blog posts, plus some bonus content that our loyal readers are sure to appreciate.

So if you’re a Twit, follow @JobDaddy

James Caan invests in webrecruit

James Caan, from the BBC programme Dragons’ Den, and founder and former chief executive of the Alexander Mann Group, has invested in online recruitment firm webrecruit.

Caan has also taken the role of chairman of webrecruit after a speculative approach from the company’s directors resulted in his investing an undisclosed sum in the company.

Managing director Phil Roebuck, who founded the business in 2001, said: “When the recession started to hit, we knew this was an opportunity to get somebody to help us capitalise on what was coming up.
Despite having to reject hundreds of other offers each month, Caan immediately liked what he saw and decided to invest.

“With James’s wealth of experience and passion for our service, we know we can continue to make a huge difference to the UK’s businesses and jobseekers,” says Roebuck.

Having successfully grown a number of businesses in the recruitment industry, Caan is excited about the opportunity of working with webrecruit. “I’ve been in recruitment for 25 years and webrecruit are the first company I’ve come across who really put their money where their mouth is,” he says.” Given the current economic climate, the money-back concept is very fitting for the times, with their service geared towards reducing cost-per-hire dramatically.”

JobDaddy goes to Pakistan

We have now launched JobDaddy.pk, a search engine for jobs in Pakistan.

JobDaddy is now present in two countries (UK and Pakistan). We hope we can launch a few more countries in the following weeks.

The Sunday Times 100 Best Companies 2009

2009	2008	Employer	Sector
1	(3)	Beaverbrooks the Jewellers	Jewellery retailer
2	(2)	Edward Jones	Financial services
3	(5)	Pannone LLP	Legal practice
4	(6)	Denplan	Dental payment plans
5	(13)	Lindum Group	Construction, development and housing
6	(29)	Penna	Human resources consultancy
7	(8)	Office Angels	Recruitment consultancy
8	(11)	W L Gore & Associates (UK)	Creative technologies
9	(14)	Data Connection	Communications technology
10	(7)	Iris	Marketing agency

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Briton Ben Southall wins ‘best job in the world’

Six months lounging on an island in the Great Barrier Reef was billed as the best job in the world and, when almost 35,000 applicants seemed to agree, the job advertisement was hailed as one of the most effective PR stunts.

A clean-cut British charity worker has been chosen as the ideal person to carry on a marketing campaign that has generated tens of millions of pounds in free publicity for tourism in the Australian state of Queensland.

You can read full article here

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JobDaddy.co.uk – UK job search engine launched

jobdaddy.co.uk (beta) went “live” early this morning!