Multi-sector recruiter gap personnel has won a major new contract with food manufacturer Samworth Brothers.
The two-year contract sees gap personnel supply up to 100 workers a day to Samworth’s South-West factories which include Callington and Launceston in Cornwall, with the recruiter installing an in-house management team at the Callington site.
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Temporary and contract staffing specialist Newwave Recruitment has bought FRL Recruitment for an undisclosed sum.
Nationwide insolvency practitioners SFP assisted with the sale of the London-based recruiter, which has 10 permanent employees and an annual turnover of £2m.
Recruiter editor DeeDee Doke has been shortlisted along with journalists from The Times, New Scientist and other UK titles for the prestigious BT Information Security Journalism Awards 2010.
Technical recruiter MBN Recruitment Solutions has appointed John Gaughan as consultant, insight and analytics.
Gaughan will work with Robin Huggins and Michael Young, servicing clients in the firm’s insight division.
A new report by welfare-to-work provider Working Links has revealed that only 20% of UK employers have knowingly recruited an ex-offender.
The report, ‘Prejudged: Tagged for Life’, goes on to say that 55% of employers would use a disclosed conviction to reject an applicant outright or would favour an equally qualified candidate with no conviction in the selection process.
The CBI has welcomed Lord Hutton’s interim report on public sector pensions.
In the report, Hutton argued there was a “strong case” for current public sector workers to contribute more from their salaries each month to tackle the £1 trillion black hole in the public pension pot.
Barclays Corporate has redesigned its recruitment scheme and launched a dedicated entry-level recruitment.
ITN Mark Education has appointed Priya Parmar and Joel McKay as education consultants.
Meanwhile, Huw Jones has been promoted from senior operations manager to associate director.
At the firm’s Leeds branch, former Education Consultant, Steven Scott is promoted to senior education consultant.
Jobsite’s Jobs app will be available for free download with today’s launch of the new Windows Phone 7 handset.
The scrapping of school building projects may be the price of protection teaching jobs, according to John Dunn, director at educational staffing specialist, Randstad Education.
In this week’s comprehensive spending review, the Chancellor announced that the budget for schools will rise by £4bn to £39bn, while 700 rebuilding projects are to be scrapped.