Our Docklands office is currently looking for a suitable person to cover our lettings coordinators role while our permanent staff member is away on maternity leave. The successful person should have at least 2 years central London experience and be a good all round team person. Cv’s should be sent to – mason.brooks@h-s-c.co.uk
Our Docklands office is exploring the idea of a lettings renewal coordinator. We are looking for someone who has negotiator and coordinator experience, the right personality and the ability to work within a team environment. Cv’s to – mason.brooks@h-s-c.co.uk .

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In the October edition of its monthly Report on Jobs, the confederation said the overall jobs market had reached “the tipping point into growth, driven by returning confidence in the private sector”.

On a scale where a baseline of 50 represents no change and anything above shows more vacancies, permanent IT and computing positions hit 51.5 in October. For the same period last year, the job market was shrinking rapidly, with a score of 40.

“The important point is that demand is up, month on month, for the first time in a long while,” David Smith, a spokesperson for the confederation’s technology group, told PC Pro. “Last year, we were going backwards in a really big way so this is positive.

A spokesman for the world’s largest software firm said the latest job cuts are spread across the company’s global operations, with around 200 posts being cut in and around its headquarters in Redmond, Washington.

Microsoft originally had planned to cut 5,000 jobs, or about 5% of its 96,000 workforce, before June 2010. The Microsoft spokesman said that plan has been expanded with the new layoffs and is now complete, well ahead of schedule.

The news comes after last month’s announcement that Microsoft’s profits had fallen for the second consecutive quarter. Profits during Microsoft’s first quarter were down 18% to $3.6 billion, with sales also fell 14% to $12.92 billion.

East Ayrshire Council said the drinks giant’s decision to ignore a rescue deal would devastate the area.

The warning came as Finance Secretary John Swinney said the government-backed plans were a “credible alternative”.

Diageo plans to close its Kilmarnock plant and distillery in Glasgow with the loss of up to 900 jobs.

The firm announced plans in July to cut 700 jobs by closing its Johnnie Walker bottling plant in Ayrshire and a further 200 with the closure of its Port Dundas distillery in Glasgow.

Intel is firing 300 workers, six per cent of its Irish workforce, at a plant near Dublin because the product they have been making is obsolete.

The plant is at Leixlip, County Kildare, and a three-month long consultation process has begun with the workers involved, meaning the first departures will be in October. These are Intel’s first mandatory redundancies in Ireland.

Two factories on the site will be consolidated and the process line in one, Fab 14, will be closed down. Demand for the product it makes is falling and Intel says its equipment is outdated. Apparently both fabs made 200mm wafers, while newer processes use 300mm ones.

Intel started its Leixlip operations in 1989. Fab 14 was started up in 1995 and has been working in conjunction with Fab 10 to produce flash memory and logic devices. There is a third fab – actually a pair of fabs, jointly called Fab 24 – on the site, which processes 300mm wafers.