One of the UK’s biggest employments agencies has announced that the finance sector is again number one, with employment figures rising for the third successive quarter in 2010. However the conomic outlook remains tough and any employment agencies wishing to expand are strongly advise to seeking external business advice.

The agency behind the report, Manpower has again confirmed that the industry will see a 7% growth in employment over the next 3 months and accountancy in particular is looking at a growth of around 5%.

The current national average for growth is only around 1% so anything more is seen as an obvious success and unemployment as a whole has risen 0.1% as of June 2010 taking the UK’s unemployment rate up to 7.9%.

Another announcement which will help boost employment figures in the UK is that of the European Union forcing banks to sell of portions of its wealth, giving new players the chance to enter the finance sector with Scotland in particular looking at a host of new banking options,

Finance Secretary John Swinney said:

“I think we are going to have more banks and more players in the marketplace as a consequence of the divestment activities directed by the European Commission..”

Adding:

“I think that is a good thing. That will mean greater competitive propositions are available in the market.”

Lloyds for example are looking at selling off the TSB branch they they inherited from Bank Of Scotland opening up a whole new venture within finance as we know it.