The Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games has appointed Jan Scott as head of human resources.
She will lead the organisation’s recruitment and employee relations strategy, including the drive to recruit people into 1,044 roles, to be undertaken with Search Consultancy as exclusive recruitment partner.
Scott also sits on the organising committee for the games.
The healthcare arm of the Recruitment & Employment Confederation (REC) has raised concern over the removal of healthcare professionals from frontline duties due to present financial pressures.
Delivering his Autumn Statement, Chancellor George Osborne has suggested that while unemployment is a jobs problem, it is also down to the fact that the UK is experiencing a lack of skills.
While there has been a month-on-month decrease of 12% in the number of new professional jobs in Ireland, there are 24% more than the same point last year, according to Morgan McKinley’s Irish Employment Monitor.
However, there was also a 1% decline in the number of professionals seeking opportunities.
Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai has criticised indigenisation laws, saying they will not solve the country’s unemployment crisis, reports the Zimbabwe Metro.
Home improvements and DIY retailer Lowe’s has announced plans for a new customer support centre in Albuquerque, New Mexico, creating 600 jobs.
The centre should be operational early next year, and the full 600 job roles should be filled by the end of 2013, according to a statement from the company.
County cricket champions Lancashire are helping unemployed people in Manchester get back in to work.
The club has partnered with Jobcentre Plus and training provider Pertemps Coachright to create the 20-week long Hat Trick Programme of sports-related activities and social development and employability skills workshops.
A recent survey conducted by recruitment specialist Robert Half indicates that more than one in four (27%) chief financial officers (CFOs) consider lack of long-term career plans the biggest mistake young accounting and finance professionals make in their careers.
Almost half of UK employers say their existing staff are too stretched to deliver their business targets, according to new research.
Research by the global management consultancy the Hay Group shows that despite UK CEOs’ ambitious growth targets of 5% for 2011, 46% admit their staff are already too stretched.
Southern Cross is continuing to recruit despite this week’s announcement that is giving up all its 752 care homes.
Howard Green, owner of Green Care Management, told Recruiter that earlier this week he received a call from the manager of a Southern Cross care home in Northampton, who was looking for two nurses.