International recruiter Empresaria Group has appointed Spencer James Wreford as group finance director.
Wreford, who joins from BPP Group where he was finance director of the professional education division, replaces Stuart Kilpatrick, who intends to accept a role outside of the group with another listed company.
Multi-sector recruiter Smart Solutions Recruitment has been appointed by recycling firm SCA Recycling UK (SCA) to provide employees for its new £15m materials recycling facility in Southampton.
Any incoming government needs to do more to develop engineering talent to meet a talent shortfall in the UK’s renewable sector, according to David Spencer-Percival, chief executive at Spencer Ogden.
Former global chief executive at FiveTen Group, Graham Palfery-Smith, has joined the board of student-focused event staffing company, Brightsparks Recruitment, as non-executive chairman.
The coalition government has been urged to simplify tax rules without removing the UK’s attractiveness of non-domiciled status for key foreign talent by Sean Drury, international mobility partner at PricewaterhouseCoopers.
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International recruiter Robert Walters has appointed Martyn Wright as director of HR recruitment.
Wright co-founded HR staffing specialist Oakleaf Partnership. He was previously group manager at Frazer Jones and has also worked in JP Morgan’s in-house HR team.
May witnessed the strongest hiring levels since 2008, according to Voyager Recruitment Software.
The firm says quotation requests for additional licences from existing customers are better than it has seen for over a year and most of these are converting into sales, meaning customers are hiring at a faster pace.
HR recruitment specialist Strategi Search and Selection is merging with parent company Advantage Professional and will become its HR division.
UK job applicants are more than three times as likely to lie on their CVs as those from the rest of the world, a recent study has found.
Pre-employment screening specialists Powerchex today released its annual research into CV embellishments, looking through details of almost 6,000 job applications made over the last 12 months.