Recruiters have a key role to play in helping public sector clients share knowledge to develop labour strategies, according to David Morgan, partner at Morgan Law.
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The UK’s London Borough of Barking and Dagenham is to implement StepStone Solutions Talent Acquisition programme.
The solution will handle recruitment and process 120,000 applications for the 600 vacancies the council advertises each year.
BIE Interim Executive has appointed Graham Jones and Alastair Lechler as directors.
Jones was most recently HR director of Acenden, a former subsidiary of Lehman Brothers. Lechler has seven years of public sector management recruitment experience with Badenoch & Clark.
Advertising agency McCann Interactive Birmingham has won a contract to overhaul recruitment specialist Reed’s website reedglobal.com.
The work, undertaken this summer, will see McCann redevelop the design and functionality of the website, as well as install and extend an open source content management system for Reed.
Restauranteur McDonalds has agreed a partnership with specialist ex-service recruiter ForceSelect, to create new job opportunities for people leaving the armed forces.
US executive search firm Lucas Group has formed a global recruiting partnership with J Friisberg & Partners Italy, an executive recruiting firm in Milan, Italy, and a member of Friisberg & Partners International.
IT and financial services recruiter Bright Purple Resourcing has strengthened its teams in Edinburgh and London with a number of new appointments.
Senior consultant Jason Milanesi and resourcer Kevin Watters join Bright Purple’s Tesco bank team in Edinburgh.
January’s increase in the standard rate of VAT could represent a “commercial nightmare” for third-sector employers not registered for VAT, according to David Thornhill, managing director of Cash Simply.
Energy firm Centrica has appointed Jill Shedden as group director human resources.
Shedden, currently HR Director for Centrica Energy, succeeds Anne Minto from 1 July.
Shedden joined Centrica as a graduate in 1988 and has since held a number of HR roles within the group.
Recruiters have a “huge” role in helping hospitality graduates enter the industry to fill increasing numbers of hotel management positions, according to Martin-Christian Kent, director of policy and research at hospitality, travel and leisure Sector Skills Council People 1st.