If you've not spotted this yet it's worth a look; "The Antal International ‘Global Snapshot’". It's their quarterly survey of hiring and firing trends covering over 4000 businesses in 32 key countries around the world.
The UK summary concludes:
"Despite the fact that the UK economy shrank by nearly 2% in the first quarter of 2009 the Snapshot found a rise in the levels of hiring at professional and managerial level, up from a dismal 18% predicted in our last edition to as much as 45%. However this overall figure does seem to mask a very fractured and varied market with some sectors displaying robust good health whilst others are suffering. Hiring levels in the financial advisory area, for example, are very low at only 15%, whilst in the FMCG sector they reach as high as 64%. In the IT sector hiring levels are still relatively low, but the survey found that many companies had not had such a bad first quarter as they had expected and were becoming more optimistic about the second half of the year."
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