Hospitality recruitment firm Berkeley Scott is to float on AIM (the Alternative Investment Market) following strong growth in the industry.
For the six months to 30 September, the company saw year-on-year increases of 24.2% and 27.6% in permanent and temporary recruitment, respectively. This was aided by the influx of labour from EU accession states such as Poland. Overall, it filled more than 150,000 vacancies for the year.
Chief executive Roddy Watt said jobseekers were increasingly deserting the web for print resources such as magazines as a result of spam e-mails, computer viruses and the lack of responses to online job applications.