A survey from hospitality sector skills council People 1st has found that employers view the use of apprentices as more productive than hiring new staff.
The sector skills council for hospitality, leisure, travel and tourism discovered that apprentices were a catalyst for galvanising their fellow workers into raising their game and stepping up their performance.
Multi-sector recruiter E3 Recruitment Management has launched four new services.
As well as a traditional recruitment agency service, the firm now offers:
Sockwell Partners, a US-based retained executive search firm, has promoted Elizabeth Denton to managing director, according to the Association of Executive Search Consultants.
Kenexa, a global provider of business solutions for HR, is to expand its relationship with the US AirForce.
Kenexa is to deliver university and community outreach services for USAF’s Air Force Personnel Center Scientist and Engineer Career Field located at Randolph Air Force Base (AFB) near San Antonio, Texas.
A complaint made against an online recruitment advert placed by Jobs Now has been upheld by the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA).
The ASA ruled that the advert, headed ‘Bar, Leisure & Hospitality roles’, placed before Christmas was misleading, because it did not make clear the roles were for escort work.
Executive search and leadership consulting firm Heidrick & Struggles International has appointed Alice Tan as consultant to the firm’s Singapore office. ??
Tan joins Heidrick & Struggles with 10 years of search experience including consulting assignments on management issues across Asia Pacific.
Simplifying the recruitment process has helped law firm Browne Jacobson improve the quality and quantity of its graduate intake, according to the firm’s HR manager.
Most recruitment agencies would go out of business if migrant workers left, according to the manager of a recruitment agency in a town featured in a television programme last week.
The president designate of the Public Sector People Managers’ Association believes that anticipated cuts in public spending could create an opportunity to develop a new “feeder route” for young people into local authority jobs.
Working effectively on recruitment issues with unions across the breadth of Transport for London (TfL) services requires “constant open communication”, according to Sharon Kardam, the transport system’s head of resourcing.