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Deputy prime minister Nick Clegg has hailed InterContinental Hotel Group's (IHG's) efforts to boost hospitality recruitment in the UK through plans to create 3,000 new jobs over the next three years. The global hotel giant, which owns the Holiday Inn brand, has 275 establishments in the UK and expects..

Restaurant chain Pesto could create sous chef jobs across the UK through plans to continue its expansion into the pub market, after an initial trial project in the Cabbage Hall pub, Cheshire, proved successful. The Manchester-based company opened a restaurant at the Punch Taverns site in November 2011..

Environment minister Alex Atwood has given hospitality recruitment in Northern Ireland a welcome fillip with the news that a luxury golf resort is set to be developed along the north coast of Antrim. The £100 million development is expected to create around 360 jobs for the sector and comprise a hotel..

An initiative has been launched with a view to ensuring the development of the new Crossrail network also bolsters civil engineering recruitment in Northern Ireland. Directors of forty Northern Irish companies have attended a special networking event at the House of Lords, where they met buyers from..

Three consortia will compete to undertake the delivery of a new Merseyside bridge, with new civil engineering jobs to be created at the successful candidate. Halton Borough Council has shortlisted the Merseylink group, the MGL group and a consortium including Balfour Beatty for the Mersey Gateway project,..

Hydrock has been selected as part of the design team for an expansion project at Bristol Airport, which is likely to encourage architecture recruitment . It will serve as civil and structural designer for the airport's three-storey west terminal extension, for which it will need to take into account..

Proposals for a west London residential project have received local authority backing and could help to fuel local construction recruitment . Hammersmith & Fulham council has given Capital & Counties Properties (Capco) permission to proceed with its £300 million plans to redevelop a 7.5-acre car park..

Call off the witch-hunt that makes contractors the witch and limited companies the broom, says Derek Kelly.

Global recruitment firm Hays has registered strong results internationally, but saw an operating loss in its UK business in the six months to 31 December 2011.

The Memorandum of Understanding on Specific Economic Policy Conditionality signed by the Greek government as a condition of its recently-granted bail-out lays down a “one recruitment for five exits” rule for public sector employment.