Global business media company United Business Media has acquired Astound, a privately-owned US virtual career fairs business.
The acquisition, on behalf of UBM Studios, is for an initial cash payment of $120,000 (£78,000) and further performance related consideration of up to $3m payable over the next three years.
Next year’s batch of graduates lack the interpersonal skills needed to succeed in the workplace, according to research by talent assessment solutions provider SHL.
Executive search firm Carmichael Fisher has appointed Mike Wright and Ben Hirst as senior consultants in its legal executive search team.
Wright and Hirst join from Taylor Root and will be based in Carmichael Fisher’s European headquarters in London recruiting across the firm’s private practice division.
Multi-sector recruiter gap personnel has won a major new contract with food manufacturer Samworth Brothers.
The two-year contract sees gap personnel supply up to 100 workers a day to Samworth’s South-West factories which include Callington and Launceston in Cornwall, with the recruiter installing an in-house management team at the Callington site.
Temporary and contract staffing specialist Newwave Recruitment has bought FRL Recruitment for an undisclosed sum.
Nationwide insolvency practitioners SFP assisted with the sale of the London-based recruiter, which has 10 permanent employees and an annual turnover of £2m.
Recruiter editor DeeDee Doke has been shortlisted along with journalists from The Times, New Scientist and other UK titles for the prestigious BT Information Security Journalism Awards 2010.
Technical recruiter MBN Recruitment Solutions has appointed John Gaughan as consultant, insight and analytics.
Gaughan will work with Robin Huggins and Michael Young, servicing clients in the firm’s insight division.
A new report by welfare-to-work provider Working Links has revealed that only 20% of UK employers have knowingly recruited an ex-offender.
The report, ‘Prejudged: Tagged for Life’, goes on to say that 55% of employers would use a disclosed conviction to reject an applicant outright or would favour an equally qualified candidate with no conviction in the selection process.
The CBI has welcomed Lord Hutton’s interim report on public sector pensions.
In the report, Hutton argued there was a “strong case” for current public sector workers to contribute more from their salaries each month to tackle the £1 trillion black hole in the public pension pot.
Barclays Corporate has redesigned its recruitment scheme and launched a dedicated entry-level recruitment.