The Australian Defence Force (ADF) has chosen international recruiter Manpower to lead its outcome-based recruiting services programme.
The $200m (£111m) contract will see Manpower employ around 300 staff over the next 27 months. The transition period will begin immediately and continue until February’s launch of the formal programme.
Independent commercial recruiter Silvercloud Recruitment has agreed a deal with online and PC-based skills testing and e-learning software provider ISV Software.
Support staff are becoming increasingly dissatisfied with their lot, according to research from the latest SecsLife survey from commercial recruiter Gordon Yates and Guardian Jobs.
While only one in five business sector firms think the current market is tough, trading conditions have declined, according to the latest Bibby Financial Services Business Factors Index.
More than half (52%) of Scotland’s financial service firms say they intend to increase headcount in 2010.
According to a survey from financial services recruiter Joslin Rowe Scotland, and supported by Scottish Enterprise and Scottish Financial Enterprise, this planned increase is up by 10% on last year’s hiring.
Of the top 1,000 UK recruiters, 136 have left themselves open to becoming a bargain acquisition, according to new research from financial research company Plimsoll.
More than a third of graduates are thinking about moving abroad to find work, according to a survey by student-employer matchmaking website www.studentgems.com.
The survey of 1,085 recent graduates and final-year university students found that 34% of British graduates were prepared to look for posts overseas, with 75% citing a struggle to find work as the prime contributory factor.
Talent acquisition solutions provider MrTed has agreed a partnership with the France’s Social Security department.
The partnership sees MrTed provide more than 600 Social Security offices with a web-based recruitment and talent acquisition capability.
Commercial recruiter Aligra has appointed Wesley Seare as branch operations manager to manage its Swindon operation.
Aligra Personnel’s managing director Mark Neilson says: “We are continuing our impressive growth, and bringing in people with Wesley’s experience enable us to continue providing the service that has helped us reach our current levels.”
The number of hours worked by private sector temporary workers increased by 35% in January, according to procurer of temporary agency labour de Poel.
And de Poel says this overall increase in temporary labour usage is in spite of bad weather caused by heavy snowfall earlier this year.