Not-for-Profit recruiter Charity People has appointed Ed Cherry as senior fundraising consultant.
Cherry, previously with Badenoch & Clark, will now recruit senior fundraising positions for Charity People, which is part of the People Unlimited group.
More than half of firms (55%) have encountered difficulties recruiting in the last six months, according to research by Alexander Mann Solutions.
The survey of global senior HR decision makers shows that 70% cite difficulties to a skills shortage in the candidate pool. This is a particular issue for companies in the UK (76%) and less pronounced in Asia-Pac (60%).
Pressure on banks to limit and defer bonuses and pay only a small percentage in cash enabling hedge fund start-ups to poach key IT staff from the banking sector, according to technology staffing specialist ReThink Recruitment.
Military personnel need to be afforded more respect following reports that soldiers were served redundancy notices via email, according to ex-military recruiter ForceSelect founder, Hugh Andrée.
The Sun newspaper reported that 38 soldiers were recently informed that they were to be made redundant via email.
Eliot Davies
The UK needs to take a long-term approach to developing talent if it is to successfully tackle spiralling unemployment, according to Eliot Davies, director at Hays Energy.
The government’s new Welfare Bill aims to put “work, rather than hand-outs”, at the centre of the welfare system, according to work and pensions secretary Iain Duncan Smith.
The bill will introduce a Universal Credit, aiming to simplify the benefits system to make work pay and break intergenerational cycles of worklessness.
The government says the changes will mean:
More than one in four renewable energy employers are struggling to fill roles, according to Renewable Energy UK (REUK).
The research reveals an increase from just 3% in 2008-2009.
Commercial and industrial recruiter Blue Arrow has appointed Bill Brace as regional director for the South and East region.
Brace joins from Reed, where he was regional manager and operations director, covering the Central London and South-East regions.
Brace also helped set up Ultimate Recruitment and Citirecruit.
Public sector staffing specialist The Capita Group is in discussions with Zurich Financial Services Group over a potential extension of Capita’s existing contract.
The contract, which administers some of the processes for Zurich’s UK operations, will widen its scope to support some of Zurich Global Life’s administration hubs in Europe and the Middle East.
A former sales manager at the Recruitment & Employment Confederation (REC) has this afternoon won her claim against the trade body for unfair dismissal.
In revealing their decision, an employment tribunal in London described the process surrounding the redundancy of Maggie Pattinson in May 2009 as “wholly unfair”.