US retained executive search firm, Cook Associates Executive Search, has appointed Harry Wilson as managing director.
Based in Charlotte, North Carolina, Wilson will support Cook’s financial services & insurance practice, working with practice managing director Kevin Parker.
Spanish telecommunications firm Telefónica has appointed Randstad Managed Services for its managerial and professional contractor hiring across its European Region.
The focus will be on its key markets of the UK, Ireland, Germany, the Czech Republic and Slovakia.
Executive recruiter Assured Recruitment Solutions has been appointed by insurance provider Fusion to recruit staff for its offices in Coventry and Peterborough.
Following a pilot scheme in which Assured filled 25 vacancies for contact centre agents at Fusion’s Coventry office, the executive recruiter has now become Fusion’s primary recruitment agency.
Arrogance and over-confidence is the trait most likely to lead to a senior executive’s undoing at interview, according to research from InterExec.
The research also listed inadequate preparation and poor communication skills – or the inability to listen – as traits likely to put interviewers off.
More than half (57%) of individuals made redundant, due to the government transition to the new look Work Programme, have been put off ever working in the sector again, according to research from Alderwood Welfare to Work.
Almost seven in 10 (68%) of Singaporean businesses expect to hire more staff in the next two years, according to a survey by professional solutions firm Regus, reports Singapore-based AsiaOne.com.
This is despite only 56% of companies expecting revenue growth in the coming months, a 13% decrease from last six months ago.
Government agency Statistics Korea shows that the country had 264,000 more jobs in September compared to the same month last year, according to the Korea Daily.
It is the first time in a year that year-on-year job creation has fallen below 300,000.
The National Economic and Development Agency has announced government plans to spend PHP3.7 trillion (£50bn) over the next five years as part of plans that will create a million new jobs a year over the next five years, reports the Philippines News Agency.
The managing director of FiveTen Group Brazil, Pedro Amaral Dinkhuysen, has passed away suddenly at the age of 34.
Dinkhuysen previously worked for Laurence Simons, before playing a key role in the launch and growth of the company’s businesses in Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro.
The chief executive of Careers Wales North-West, Sarah Finnegan-Dehn, will serve a year’s term as the president of the Institute of Career Guidance.