IT and engineering recruiter Capital International IT Staffing’s chairman, Ashish Dasgupta, has been awarded an MBE in the Queens 2010 New Year Honours List.
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Healthcare products supplier Coloplast is offering bonuses of up to £1,200 to staff who help the firm find new talent.
Coloplast’s ‘Talent Search’ scheme offers existing staff a bonus of £600 if they introduce someone to the company who takes up a job there, followed by a further £600 six months later when the new recruit successfully completes their probation period.
HR is growing its influence by playing an increasingly pivotal role in the business planning and strategy of UK companies, according to a survey from the Scala Group, the ACE Network and supported by international law firm Salans.
A recruitment drive by Lincolnshire Police to fill an estimated 150 vacancies over the next 12 to 18 months led to more than 2,000 requests for application forms - in just two hours after its launch.
“It feels really good. We expected 1,500 requests over five days,” senior recruitment officer David Freeman told Recruiter.
An article from the Daily Mail this week highlighted the legal intricacies faced by recruiters in this day and age when writing ad copy for jobs.
Nicole Mamo, who runs Hertfordshire-based Devonwood Recruitment, was meticulous in her wording for hospital workers, ensuring the ad did not in any way offend on ground of race, age or sexual orientation — or so she thought.
Nearly 100 social care workers interested in working in Australia attended an event run by Healthcare Locums (HCL) in London last night.
Last night’s fact-finding event at the Australian High Commission was attended by 85 qualified social workers and social care professionals interested in exploring temporary and permanent positions in Victoria and the Northern Territory.
Global executive search firm Korn/Ferry International has formed an alliance with Airola & Luokkamaki, a Finnish leadership recruitment and talent management firm.
Airola & Luokkamaki will be responsible for extending Korn/Ferry’s executive search and other talent management services in Finland.
HR solutions provider Penna has appointed three principal consultants to its executive recruitment team.
Iain Brockbank heads up a new transport and infrastructure team, while Tim Lewis joins the telecoms, technology and media team.
And Anthony Hopkin is to focus on local government recruitment within the public sector team.
Senior level interim executives provider BIE Interim Executive has appointed Kirk Rogers as a director.
Rogers joins the firm’s specialist team sourcing executives for public and private sector clients.
HR recruiter Frazer Jones has appointed Layla Jaff as an associate director.