Sales and recruitment consultancy Bill Boorman is to host an international recruitment sales competition this Wednesday.
The competition, which will run in the UK, US and Australia opens at 9.45am (in the UK, US and Australia, opening times tbc) with a 15-minute conference call explaining details of the structure and rules of the day.
Temp workers
Today is the deadline for recruiters to enter Recruiter’s search for the UK’s best temporary/interim workers.
Outsourcing specialist Ochre House has agreed a deal to supply technical and managerial personnel throughout continental Europe for corporate information provider Williams Lea.
Multi-sector recruiter Randstad has agreed to sell parts of its Dutch HR Services portfolio to IT service provider Raet.
The activities involved offer salary administration and payroll services to the education sector in the Netherlands, providing revenue of roughly €18m (£15.5m) in 2008.
Employers that limit candidate searches to the internet could be making an expensive mistake, according to David Mains, director of IT recruiter Enigma People Solutions.
Mains says that the explosive growth in the popularity of sites such as Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter has “dazzled” the business world.
Recruiters have claimed that a government investment will not reinvigorate some of the country’s high streets hit hardest by the recession.
Last week, the government announced that 57 local authorities will be given grants worth more than £50,000 each to help prevent their high streets from becoming ghost towns.
Alium Partnershas been awarded a place on NHS PASA’s (Purchasing & Supply Agency) commercial resources framework for the supply of senior level interim executives.
Mike Hollin, head of Alium Partners’ public sector practice, says: “We are delighted to formalise our long-term relationship with the NHS through being appointed as a supplier to the commercial resources framework.
Seven recruitment advertising firms have been wound up after an investigation found they were deceiving health trusts into paying for job adverts that had been already placed.
Representatives of the companies, which has similar names to long-established publications, were cold calling the trusts pretending to be verifying details of the job adverts.
Resourcing and senior HR professionals will be in demand come the recovery, according to recruiters.
A survey from IT and business services firm Logica this week showed that over a third of HR departments claim they do not have the necessary HR personnel in place to deal with an upturn.