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Ex-military staffing specialist ForceSelect is to develop a national network of independent schools offering bursary places to families of all three Armed Forces based on the success of a pilot scheme.

It is critical that governments across the world open themselves up to the movement of talent as part of the solution to meet skills shortages.

So says Jeffrey A Joerres, chairman and chief executive of international recruitment giant ManpowerGroup.

Insolvency, inflation and instability will dominate the global environment  for some time to come - conditions that will affect organisations’ ability to effectively handle their talent issues, the chief economist of The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) warned a London audience on Thursday.

Pensions, investment and insurance company Prudential has signed a deal with Microdec to implement its Profile RPM recruitment software.

China is set to be a “global hotspot for business opportunity”, according to a report from the Economist Intelligence Unit’s (EIU) Access China service.

The report identifies the top 20 fastest growing large cities, represented by ‘CHAMPS’ — Chongqing, Hefei, Anshan, Maanshan, Pingdingshan and Shenyang.

Independent News and Media (Northern Ireland) owner of the Belfast Telegraph has chosen MatchWork to provide a CV-matching service for its job board www.nijobfinder.co.uk.

The ability to deliver quality candidates tops a list of qualities UK firms seek in a recruitment agency, according to research from professional staffing recruitment consultancy Barclay Meade, part of the AIM-listed recruitment business Matchtech Group.

Broadbean has agreed a partnership with mobile recruiting provider Allthetopbananas.com.

Career sites UsefulStudents.com and Milkround.com have agreed a partnership which enables students registering with UsefulStudents.com to also to sign up for regular updates on graduate jobs and internships matched to their career ambitions from Milkround.com.

Executive search firm Korn/Ferry International has appointed Alexandre Fialho as president and chief operating officer for its leadership and talent consulting business in Latin America.

Fialho is based in the firm’s Sao Paulo office.

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