North East recruiter Jo Hand Recruitment has appointed Laura Stobart as regional operations manager to continue the firm’s expansion across Darlington, North Yorkshire and Durham.
Stobart has more than five years’ experience in the recruitment industry.
She is joined by Ryan Hamer, a recruitment consultant specialising in the engineering sector.
The US staffing market is set for recovery in 2010, according to Ron Mester, managing director of research and analysis firm Staffing Industry Analysts.
Lord Digby Jones has been appointed senior adviser to the Harvey Nash Group, the global professional recruitment consultancy and IT outsourcing service provider.
Recruiters have a vital role in providing effective workforce planning to protect patients, according to Jo Johal head of doctors and Allied Health Professionals at healthcare staffing agency PULSE.
Kelly Services has agreed to pay $11m (£6.3m) to settle a class action lawsuit that accuses the company of failing to pay temporary workers their vacation pay.
The University of Derby Student Employment Agency (SEA), which assists with finding students opportunities for temporary and part-time paid jobs while studying and during holidays, has enhanced its eploy recruitment software platform to help its burgeoning student placement process.
The number of firms going out of business is at its lowest in a year, according to the latest Insolvency Index from Experian.
The index shows that 0.09% of UK businesses failed during August this year, up on the 0.08% recorded in August 2008 but down on the 0.11% recorded in July.
Kenexa, a provider of global business solutions for HR, has appointed Jerry Collier as international RPO development director.
Insurance, investments and pensions group LV= has upgraded its online recruitment system to include an integrated candidate screening solution powered by NorthgateArinso PeopleChecking and linked to StepStone’s applicant tracking system.
A new service, available through Business Link, has been launched to help forge stronger relationships between small businesses and banks.