Recruiters should use the consultation on draft guidance for Agency Workers Regulations (AWR) to gain further clarity on the ‘Swedish Derogation’ model.
This is the advice from Hayley Dear and Bridget Wood, solicitors in law firm Blake Lapthorn’s specialist recruitment sector group.
Executive search and advisory firm Allemby Hunt has acquired Global Financial Search.
Lisa Delaryd, owner and head of Global Financial Search,joins Allemby Hunt’s capital markets group as senior consultant, covering fixed income sales, rates trading and rates futures and options.
Talent management solutions provider StepStone Solutions has released version 11 of its SaaS-based, enterprise-level talent acquisition solution, MrTedTalentLink.
Version 11 includes enables clients to more effectively convert their business and consumer brands into an attractive career proposition and engage more closely with their talent communities.
With more companies looking to take advantage of growth territories, there is a trend for firms to appoint a head of emerging markets.
In the first quarter of 2011 nine recruitment agencies were put into administration, a 31% drop on the previous quarter and 59% less than the same period in the previous year, according to exclusive research by Recruiter magazine.
BT’s Openreach division is seeking 200 ex-armed forces personnel to help deliver super-fast fibre broadband.
The new recruits are due to start their new jobs in May as part of a mobile engineering workforce, which will help to deploy super-fast broadband to homes and businesses across the UK.
Executive search and interim management partnership Eton Bridge Partners has appointed Louise Chaplin as consultant in its interim practice.
Chaplin joins the interim finance team from Ashridge Business School, where she has spent the last seven years partnering with FTSE 100 companies and high-growth organisations to develop leadership and management solutions.
The number of confirmed job offers in financial services fell month-on-month by 3.5% in April, according to data from City pre-employment screening company Powerchex.
The data also shows that compared with April last year, there was a 3% rise in the number of job offers made.
Political unrest in Libya is taking its toll on online recruitment activity, according to international oil & gas jobsite OilCareers.com.
The jobsite’s data shows visits from jobseekers interested in working in the country dropped in April to 13, from 4,149 visits in April 2010.
Skills for Care is inviting tenders from employers across the social care sector for projects that promote and support adult social care apprenticeships.
The social care training provider will work with employers committed to develop their work in up to seven areas: