Hospitality & Leisure

Contracts/Deals: Taleo to see through 400,000 IHG hires

Recruitment software provider Taleo will work with the Intercontinental Hotels Group (IHG) as the chain looks to recruit 400,000 over the next four years.

INTERNATIONAL Egypt: New museum to create 15,000 jobs

Cairo’s Grand Egyptian Museum will provide 15,000 jobs when it opens in 2015, according to an announcement from minister of state antiquities, reports HotelierMiddleEast.com.The project already employs 5,000 people and is in the final phase of construction.The website reports that the total cost of the museum will be E£5bn (£530m), and having previously been scheduled for March 2015 opening, it has now been pushed back to August.

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Appointments: Shepherd checks in as Jurys Inn HR manager

Appointments: Winter-Rousset is Profile VP

Hospitality sector executive search firm Profile has appointed Corinne Winter-Rousset as vice president of business development.

Appointments: Glasgow 2014 appoints Scott as HR chief

The Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games has appointed Jan Scott as head of human resources.

Appointments: Towngate opens doors to Goodall and Baldock

Bournemouth hospitality recruitment agency Towngate Personnel has appointed Tim Goodall and Paul Baldock as consultants.Goodall will work in the food and beverage sector of the firm focusing on temporary work placements across the UK.Baldock, a former restaurateur and hotelier joins the chefs division of the firm working, to work with permanent hires in Greater London and the Bournemouth and New Forest area.