Latest Acorn Recruitment Employment News

2012-08-14

  There is no point simply saying you can't find local solutions to West Country skills shortages you actually have to do something about. Having...

2012-07-17

Since the second world war, market dominance by distributors and wholesalers gave way to dominance by manufacturers, followed by the current period of...

2012-07-10

  Today I would like to share with you an exchange that has taken place between a West Country Employer struggling to find Engineering skills and...

2012-07-04

One regional tourism boss said that visitor numbers are 10-15% down on last year – and he declares we are suffering a "double whammy"...

2012-06-12

  Here is a pessimism warning, this is a good news post about the state of the West Country jobs market Although the  upcoming Olympics continues...

2012-05-30

  Youth unemployment is a global problem that will not go away. Lower infant mortality increases numbers; industrialisation and automation reduce...

2012-05-05

  It is a very tough market for all businesses in the West Country not helped by the unexpected hits from defaulting clients and this is where we...

2012-04-25

  Today we wish to give publicity to a statement by Andrew George MP for St Ives in Cornwall on why the “caravan tax” is bad news for...

2012-04-19

  The Government has been urged to prove it is not merely paying "lip service" to the countryside following its inaugural summit with...

2012-03-30

  As a West Countryman it always saddens me to learn of the demise of any business but when a root cause  can be triggered by a third party...