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The Capita Group has announced that chairman Eric Walters will stand down from 1 January, when Martin Bolland will become chairman. Executive director Paddy Doyle will move to non-executive director (NED) from 1 March.
Walters joined Capita in 2000 and was appointed chairman in 2006. Following nine years as NED and latterly chairman, Walters has decided to stand down from the board.
Ed Percival, business coach
At this time of year, most of the people you know will be wittering on about resolutions.
Campus auditions, recruitment fairs, talent spotter cards, newspaper and billboard advertising, as well as its own intranet, are just some of the ways hotel chain Premier Inn has recruited staff for its new hotel in Bangalore, India.
It’s official - Britain has exited recession, according to figures from the Office for National Statistics.
Russell Clements
International recruiter SThree has seen a fall in profits in its preliminary results for the year ended 29 November 2009.
Industrial and driving agency Red Eagle has promoted Will Cotter to operations director.
Elsewhere, Emma Peattie joins as industrial consultant. Peattie role will be managing a portfolio of existing clients while establishing new business opportunities. Meanwhile, Will Cotter has been promoted to operations director.
Web based recruitment solution provider eploy has won three new contracts.
Recruitment firms Care@, Straco and Morgan Jones have all chosen eploy’s web-based recruitment software solution.
In all my time as a recruitment consultant, I have never seen so many poorly trained people working in the industry.
Jobcentre officials have refused to place an ‘ageist’ job advert for a junior stylist.
The Daily Mail reports that Michelle Hilling, owner of U Hairdressing in Gosforth in Newcastle, was prevented from placing the advert because the word ‘junior’ discriminated against older applicants.
Hilling eventually dropped the word ‘junior’ in favour of ‘apprentice’.