The Dutch recruitment industry has harnessed the power of social networking to spread the word about the third annual Recruitment Industry Dance Event (RIDE). The event, held at the Hotel Arena in Amsterdam, brought in-house recruiters, agencies, job boards and RPO providers together for a night of dancing and networking in the Dutch capital.
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IT specialist recruiter Energize Recruitment Solutions has promoted Hayley Jones to internal recruitment manager to support the growth of the business in 2010 beyond.
Jones was previously responsible for recruiting high-level sales professionals into the IT and software market and she will now headhunt the top talent in the recruitment industry.
Multi-sector recruiter Concept Staffing has renewed its contract to supply provider of engineered electronic components Tyco Electronics UK with temporary workers for the next two years.
Concept has supplied unskilled, semi-skilled and skilled temporary industrial labour as well as office-based workers to Tyco since April 2003.
Healthcare recruiter Meridian Health has won a place on the NHS framework agreement for the national supply of non-medical, non-clinical fixed term and temporary staff.
Meridian Health now has places on all of the following NHS temporary staffing frameworks: non-medical, non-clinical, commercial resources and agency nursing.
The combined framework contract value is over £700m.
Interim management and executive search firm Hexagon Human Capital has encountered ‘difficult’ trading conditions in its interim results for the six months to 30 September 2009.
Candidates predict that the UK jobs market will bounce back towards the end of the year, according to new research from CV guidance firm CV Trumpet.
Jobsite Monster.co.uk has announced that it is to sponsor Radio station 95.8 Capital FM’s Capital Breakfast with Johnny Vaughan and Lisa Snowdon.
The sponsorship will run for four weeks from 11 January.
Online recruitment closed the year on a 12th-month high, according to Monster’s Employment Index for December.
The index posted a reading of 120 in the month, up four points on November and the highest this year.
Talent management solutions provider StepStone Solutions is to partner with web-based marketing technology company Papirfly to enable users of StepStone’s e-recruitment solution to create professional branded job advertisements.
Better times lie just around the corner for recruiters, according to the chief executive of Hamilton Bradshaw Human Capital.
Ian Wolter, who is also chief executive of Eden Brown, told Recruiter: “I do think the worst is behind us, and consequently the fear has gone from our markets.