First Recruitment Services has appointed Victoria Chadwick to its newly established management & executive recruitment division.
Chadwick has 10 years’ recruitment experience, having successfully placed staff at a senior level in organisations throughout the South.
Gavin Barnard, previously an EMEA in-house recruiter at Google, has joined software provider VMware as lead technical recruiter for EMEA.
The UK’s energy sector has the potential to “lead the way” in job creation, according to Andy Preston, managing director of energy recruitment specialist BW Penman.
The Recruitment & Employment Confederation (REC) has welcomed indications from a government review that recruiters may now be given the option of waiting for three months instead of having to enrol their temporary and contract workers onto a pension scheme from day one.
The pfj network is to implement Bond Adapt Version 11 from recruitment software provider Bond International Software.
The pfj network comprises four specialist recruitment brands: pfj, the Graduate Recruitment Company, RPCushing and Sydney-based ICUR.
A Dumfries and Galloway forestry contractor has been convicted of operating as a gangmaster without a licence.
At Dumfries Sheriff Court on Friday (15 October), Christopher Fairgrieve Murray of Dunscore pled guilty on a charge of section 12(1) of the Gangmasters (Licensing) Act (GLA) 2004* and was fined £2,500.
Salaries and fee income for UK recruiters working in contingency recruitment have gone up over the past year by as much as 10-28%, according to the Annual Recruitment, Executive Search & Interim Management Salary Survey 2011 by Heywood Staffing Solutions.
Online recruitment activity rose to its highest levels since December 2008, according to the latest Monster Employment Index.
IT recruiter Ashton Consulting has appointed Zoe Drew as contract recruitment consultant specialising in virtualisation, cloud computing and storage contracts.
Katrina Dorney joins as permanent recruitment consultant for virtual market of technical architecture.
Global Sage, a global executive search firm specialising in financial services, has appointed Andrew Miller as director of Asia.
Miller will head business development for the firm’s intelligence and research group. With more 15 years’ experience in the financial services sector, Miller previously served as managing director in Asia for both Linedata Services and Xinhua Finance.