Business-to-business social media strategy practice Carve Consulting has entered into partnership with employment marketing agency ThirtyThree.
The firms will combine to offer a fully integrated approach to internal and external employee marketing and communications across digital and social media platforms.
Commercial and industrial staffing specialist Staffline Group has acquired certain assets and commercial relationships from Arnashade Recruitment following the firm’s administration earlier this month.
Arnashade, based in Luton, Bedfordshire, specialises in industrial recruitment servicing a number of corporate customers in the Hertfordshire and Bedfordshire area.
Management search firm Expion Search & Selection has appointed Gosia Kowenia as client development manager.
Kowenia joins the firm from Quantica, where she was a specialist headhunter in their healthcare sector.
Recruitment software provider Cirrus Nova has agreed a partnership with sales and marketing specialist ClickDimensions.
Cirrus Nova Prism, a cloud-based Microsoft CRM Dynamics 2011-based recruitment program, enables recruiters to track sales and marketing activity from the same location.
The government must remain focused on job creation in a “choppy” recovery, according to employment minister Chris Grayling.
Figures from Office for National Statistics show unemployment rose to 2.49m, while the number of people claiming Jobseeker’s Allowance has also increased by 37,000 to 1.56m. The number of people in employment has increased by 25,000 to 29.27m.
The Criminal Records Bureau has extended its contract with Capita Group to continue to provide its Disclosure Service under a PPP agreement for a further 12 months from the end of March 2012 until March 2013.
Online recruitment agency RecruitmentRevolution.com has completed the successful beta testing of its automated candidate feedback system.
Operations director, Anna Taylor, says: “Back in April we launched our Beta Candidate Feedback service enabling the applicant to get a ‘real-time’ application update, and to date the new service has received nearly 8,000 requests.
City recruiter and executive search firm Aldrich & Company has appointed Charlotte Bygraves as head of events, marketing, communications and roadshow recruitment.
Bygraves joins from UBS where she was regional head of event marketing and reports to managing director and co-founder Emily Aldrich.
Private sector use of interim managers has almost returned to pre-recession levels, which peaked at a 70/30% split in favour of the private sector, according to research from the Interim Management Association (IMA).
Drawn from its quarterly, independent market audit (IPSOS Mori Q2 2011), the figures reveal the split between the public and private sectors is now around 61% versus 39%.
Construction recruiter Jark Construction has appointed Adrian Rolph-Wills as a sector manager.
Rolph-Wills joins the firm’s Ipswich office.