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Recruitment giant Randstad has promoted Mark Bull to the new role of chief executive of the UK and the Middle East.

Cambridge-based technical recruiter Epulet Technical Recruitment has acquired aerospace maintenance recruitment firm AircraftEngineers.co.uk.

The acquired business, with funding from invoice and asset-based lender Venture Finance, will trade as AircraftEngineers.co.uk.

CMA Financial Recruitment has appointed Lee Cooper as a non-executive director.

Cooper, who joins CMA’s board, will be responsible for developing the consultancy’s social media networking plans, as well as advising on strategic areas of the business. He reports directly to chairman Peter Clarke.

Ensuring a consistent candidate experience lies at the heart of a successful global recruitment strategy, according to Greg Allen, Nokia’s head of recruitment EMEA.

Rumours of the demise of the Irish economy have been greatly exaggerated, according to Jason Kennedy, global CEO of Irish-owned Grafton Employment Group.

The Morgan McKinley Irish Employment Monitor for November shows that compared to 2010, 46% of managers across the finance, technical, office support and IT functions in Ireland feel more positive about the economic outlook for 2011.

The Insolvency Service has warned companies involved in tax umbrella schemes that those companies that adopt unscrupulous business practices will be investigated and closed down.

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.

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.

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