Creating compelling content should lie at the heart of constructing apps to engage with candidates, according to Matthew Jeffery,Autodesk’s head of EMEA talent acquisition and global talent brand.
Peterborough-based mobile applications firm All The Top Bananas built the app with a brief from Jeffery.
The chairman of Healthcare Locums (HCL) has refused to rule out the possibility of bringing in the police following the discovery of a number of “serious accounting irregularities” and other financial issues at the firm.
Legal recruiter Apple Personnel has appointed Sharran Bennett as sales consultant in its legal services department.
Bennett will focus on working with law firms and in-house legal teams in Yorkshire & North-east areas.
Lynne Hardman, new managing director of accountancy and finance recruiter RK Accountancy, is to take charge of sister Kellan group firm Quantica Search & Selection.
The Association of Professional Staffing Companies (APSCo) is in advanced talks with recruitment process outsourcers (RPOs) to create a new charter for RPOs and MSPs.
The new charter follows 18 months of discussions between APSCo, RPOs, recruiters and members of ABFA (Asset Based Finance Association), which represents invoice finance providers.
Responding to Guy Hayward’s article “Experience Beats Value”, 17 August, the purpose of values is to clearly state what a firm believes is important. Each value will then have a desired set of behaviours.
It is crucial when rolling out your values that everyone experiences the values, they are not merely read in posters or handbooks.
One in six (17%) UK employees believe corporate security is put at major risk by social networking sites, according to new research from global risk consultancy Protiviti.
With social networking increasing exponentially for recruiting and jobseeking, three in 10 (28%) also consider sites such as Facebook and LinkedIn a major risk to their personal security.
The board of recruiter Healthcare Locums (HCL) has issued a statement saying it is aware of “misleading statements” being distributed by minority interested parties, which it urges shareholders to ignore.
This follows claims from New York hedge funds, purportedly offering alternative proposals to the recommended restructuring put forward by HCL to shareholders in August.
Six people have been arrested as part of an investigation into human trafficking by Crewe CID and the Gangmasters Licensing Authority (GLA).
On 7 September officers and the GLA issued warrants at five addresses in Crewe.
Four in 10 men would prefer to work in a male only environment, according to research from online HR consultancy Reabur.
The research shows 64% of which say it because of the “bitchy” environment created by female staff.
Just 8% would like to be the only male in a female workforce, due to “romantic opportunities”.