Antal International launches the first of a series of FREE Friday Web Casts at 1.00 PM (BST) where we will answer your questions about recruitment franchising live across the globe.

FREE WEB CAST:

‘AN INTRODUCTION TO LAUNCHING A RECRUITMENT BUSINESS’

Antal International bucks trend by opening four new offices –Liz Kilford, Franchise Development Director for Antal International, will explain how you can launch and run a profitable global recruitment business through franchising with Antal International Network. Liz will answer your questions LIVE during the first in a series of regular weekly broadcasts.

Respond now to lkilford@antal.com or franchising@antal.com for a link and instructions.

Professional and managerial recruiter, Antal International, has announced the opening of four new business units in Frankfurt, Munich and Nuremburg in Germany and Barcelona in Spain adding to the market coverage of its current offices in Frankfurt, Madrid and Barcelona. This comes on top of the three offices in Canada, India and Pakistan, which opened earlier in the year, and takes the company’s global network to 62 business units across 29 countries. Read the rest of this entry »

A quarterly survey of hiring and firing trends in over 30 key countries has found job prospects for professionals and managers in India better than the global average. The percentage of organizations here expecting to shed staff in the next three months is also below the worldwide average.

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The ‘Global Snapshot’ from the international recruitment firm, Antal, asked 4217 companies in major markets such as western and eastern Europe, Africa, India, China and the USA whether they were currently hiring at professional and managerial level. It then asked whether they planned to do so in the coming quarter and whether they were currently letting staff go or were planning to do so in the next three months. Current hiring across the globe was down from 54% of respondents at the beginning of the year to 47% now. However the percentage of organizations intending to hire in the coming quarter had actually risen from 43% to 44%.

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