Gold Group brings in quartet

Technical and professional recruiter Gold Group has hired two new consultants this month in Gemma Ives and Matt Kendall, with two back of office staff also joining the business.

gap personnel puts Hull in charge of East ops

Industrial labour provider gap personnel has appointed Matthew Hull, previously regional director for Yorkshire at the firm, as its operations director (East UK).

CTGrowth launches with new principals

Executive search firm CTPartners has hired Mark Hexamer and Dayton Ogden to lead CTGrowth Partners, a new division of the business working for high growth companies.

Budget 2013: Osborne urged to ‘get on with it’ over Business Bank

The chancellor needs to get on with implementing plans for its state-backed Business Bank to allow staffing companies to grow, says Peter Lowman, managing director of LoveWorkLife, a specialist consultancy that advises recruitment companies.

Jobs Watch: Atos recruits apprentices, Yahoo! hires in Dublin

International IT services company Atos has opened applications for its apprenticeship schemes, while expansion in Dublin for web firm Yahoo! means it will need to hire 200 employees in the next 12 months.

LV= launches smartphone-enabled careers site

Insurance firm LV= says its new smartphone-optimised careers site acknowledges not just practical concerns such as screen size and bandwidth, but also the issues of user attention span and time restrictions.

Profit-taking may soon be too tempting - City Comment

After a blistering start to 2013, equity markets have flat-lined over the past two weeks with the FTSE100 index up a measly 0.1%. Within the UK recruitment sector, the vast majority of shares have tracked the broader index and drifted sideways. Instead, the main price action of note this month has been among the second liners.