Nannette Ripmeester is founder and director of employability consultancy, Expertise in Labour Mobility.
McKinsey, a consultancy, found that labour productivity increased by 11% a year in China from 2007 to 2012, compared with 8% in Thailand and 7% in Indonesia.
It added that spend on consultancy and contingent labour are down 73% and savings through GPS efforts, working with departments, recorded £1.7bn in 2010-11, with 2011-12 figures being audited for publication soon.
Material from the Labour People consultancy claims to have the backing of Gina Miller, the philanthropist, David Offenbach, a Labour donor, and Stephen Kinnock, the son of former leader Neil Kinnock and a parliamentary candidate.
A graduate says... Jane Blacklock, research and project officer, Impactt Limited, an ethical trade consultancy firm specialising in labour rights (www.impacttlimited.com) I originally started at Impactt as an intern in November 2006.
And a New Labour-consultancy complex formed at the heart of government.
John Philpott, director of the Jobs Economist consultancy, said: "Although the UK labour market continues to improve, there are tentative signs in the latest figures that the balance between job creation and pay growth may have started to shift.
Looking ahead to the jobs report, Caroline Bain and Julian Jessop at the consultancy Capital Economics said: "While the labour market has continued to tighten, we suspect that Fed officials will want to see clear signs of a renewed acceleration in GDP growth before they green light the next rate hike," they wrote in a note to clients.
In March Arthur Kroeber of GaveKal Dragonomics, a consultancy, declared the "end of surplus labour" in China.
In fact, Ed Miliband's recent upswing in popularity coincides with Labour hiring a leadership consultancy firm for their leader.
