Creative sector recruiter Pitch Consultants has launched its 2011 B-Hive graduate recruitment initiative for the West Midlands.
The initiative, a partnership with Business Birmingham, sees students compete for industry placements at top Midlands firms and highlights employment opportunities for graduates within Birmingham’s burgeoning creative industries sector.
Executive search specialist RMG has appointed Clare Casey as consultant in its healthcare team.
Casey was previously a sales representative with 3M UK, within its occupational health and environmental safety sector.
In a slight departure from our quest for irrelevance, this week we have an entry for “thanks for stating the obvious”.
It comes to us courtesy of the Forum of Private Business, which offers do’s and don’ts for this year’s round of Christmas parties.
Continued innovation in the mobile phones sector will result in an intensifying war for technology talent in 2011, according to Mark Beard, managing director at technical and IT staffing specialist Vertex Solutions.
Conditions within the Scottish labour market improved in November, led by higher demand for employees, according to the Bank of Scotland (BoS) ‘Report on Jobs’.
As a result, the number of people placed into jobs in both the permanent and temporary sectors increased from October.
Almost half (49%) of adults in employment anticipate improved career prospects in 2011, according to research by distance learning specialist Home Learning College.
The research also shows that just 20% think things will get worse.
Bond International Software, provider of recruitment and human capital management software, has integrated recruitment software applications Bond Adapt and EZAccess with Drag&Tag, a browser-based collaborative research tool.
Jobsite MyJobGroup.co.uk predicts that today will be the busiest day for job searches of 2011.
Mark Riley, marketing manager of MyJobGroup.co.uk, says: “Our busiest day has traditionally been the first Tuesday back in the office after 1 January.
The number of professional job vacancies in Ireland decreased by 12% from November to December 2010, according to the latest Morgan McKinley Irish Employment Monitor.
The monitor also reveals that 42.8% of managers say their firms were planning to hire new staff, while for 39.2% hiring is on hold and 18% unsure of their hiring activity for the next 12 months.
The Recruitment & Employment Confederation (REC) has appointed Gillian Econopouly as head of policy.
Econopouly, previously the London Chamber of Commerce and Industry’s head of policy, will be leading the REC’s lobbying and campaigning work.