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The UK Best Recruitment Agencies Awards was recently concluded, with a number of winners for different categories announced.

The award, powered by Here Is The City News, a popular source for financial markets, gathered online votes and polls from visitors and users to identified the agencies which deliver the best result catering for the business and financial market.

If you’re considering UK as your next stop for employment, keep yourself hooked with the winning agencies.

Winners:

1. Best Search Firm: Execuzen

Execuzen, which covers search assignments primarily senior executive and management took the Best Search Firm award for 3rd consecutive years.

The company serves a wide range of industries, and operates in a number of major cities including London (UK), New York (US), Moscow (Russia), Mumbai (India) and Hong Kong.

2. Best On-Site Recruitment Agency: Hays Resource Management

For 2nd year in a row, Hays Resource Management retained its top position as the preferred on-site recruitment agency. Founded more than 10 years ago, the agency offers HR and recruitment process outsourcing (RPO) services to major companies based in the UK, Europe and Asia. Annually, the holding group, Hays, generated a massive revenue of over 1.5 Euro.

3. Best Contingency Recruiter: Finance Professionals City

Finance Professionals City provides recruitment placement and consultancy for finance and accounting professionals, covering entry level positions up to the board level and top management. Both permanent and contract staffing are available in the agency. Finance Professionals City’s main operation is based in Oil Bailey, London, UK.

4. Best Tem/Interim Recruitment Agency: Hays City

Also belongs to Hays group. Hays City streamlines integrated recruitment and staffing solutions for clients in City, Docklands and West Ends, serving mainly the banking and financial sector. Job specialization offers include investment banking, front office, project managements, marketing, risk & compliance, purchasing, human resource and so on.

A new promotion system is being proposed for the Malaysian Police force that will require a cop to sit down for an examination and undergo a two-week course to be considered for promotion.

The new system will be subject to approval from the Public Service Department (PSD) before it can be implemented.

Once approved, the examination or test will be a compulsory requisite, which will pre-determine if the cop qualifies for the next stage, the induction course. The induction course, which takes about 2 weeks, will continue to assess and develop the character and skills for the incumbents.

The new system will also allow the police staff to be assessed from many different aspects, and promotion will be granted based on the overall achievements and skills which include leadership, management, public speaking, administration and so on.

Presently, promotion in the police force is mainly exercised through supervisor’s recommendation. Recommended staff will be shortlisted, interviewed by higher ranked officers and sit for an exam before handed with a new role.

The recent development in the country has seen the credibility and integrity of the police force subject to close scrutiny by citizens, media and political watch dogs, with the current Inspector General Police, IGP, under probe by Anti Corruption Agency (ACA) for fabricating criminal evidence.

The Terengganu state is launching a program that will train single mothers to become skilled maids and competent domestic helpers.

The program will commence next year, 2009, with a pilot project starting in Seberang Takir, nearby the state capital, Kuala Terengganu.

With the inception of the program, the Terengganu government aims to capture the interest of local families and residents wishing to find domestic helpers, and offer them alternative option other than sourcing maids from overseas.

At the same time, it is an effort that would help those single mothers who seek to find additional income for their families.

Terengganu Skill Development Center, TESDEC will plan and develop the training modules. The state look to implement similar system like being done for Indonesian maids, and improve it to the next level.

Currently, majority of the maids in Malaysia are recruited from the neighboring countries, particularly Indonesia. Apart from low compensation cost, maids from Indonesia were found willing to serve for longer term. There has also been recent preference to hire maids from Myanmar and China but the rising cost and expenses has not made it a sensible solution.

Presently, Terengganu has one of the highest numbers of single mothers, with an estimation of over 20,000 throughout the eastern coast state.

While we often associate operator job with low paying, blue collar repetitive tasks, there are those who are financially well off working in the position.

In fact, they can earn much more than those executives with college degree manning the desk jobs.

However, with the risk that comes with the job, not many people are quite keen to do it.

The job? Nuclear Power Reactor Operator.

CareerBuilder.com recently listed the Nuclear Power Reactor Operator as one of the highest paying jobs that require no degree. On average, an operator working in a nuclear plant can take home $64,090 per year, or $5340 monthly.

The job also has its own uniqueness as not all countries offer the job opportunities – only those which operates nuclear reactors do so.

In general, a nuclear plant reactor produces energy out of a controlled atomic and nuclear reactions, and convert the reactions into usable forms of energy such as electricity, for consumer distribution. Currently, 15% of the world’s electricity is provided through nuclear power, with major producers coming from United States, France and Japan.

Getting a job as an operator in a nuclear plant does not specifically require high tertiary education. Most companies accept candidates who hold Diploma, Certificate or Vocational Training, and with some decent grades in Maths, Physics or Chemistry. Courses preferred include Power Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Marine Engineering and Production.

As a nuclear plant operator, safety is put above everything else. All the required protective gears and equipment are to be worn at all time to minimize exposure to hazardous particles and materials. Some of the tasks designated to an operator working in a nuclear power reactor include equipment maintenance and surveillance, testing, sampling, and operating machines.

The job also demands a rather intensive physical duties, so it comes as a no surprise to learn that most of the operators are in the male category.