International recruiter Advantage Professional is to open a new office in Singapore.
The move marks Advantage Professional’s first expansion within Asia. The office will offer accounting & finance, banking & financial services, IT and sales & marketing recruitment services.
The office will be led by Steve Plant.
Making a return to the news alert, this entry to our “That’s great for you, but what the devil does it have to do with recruitment?” column comes from management consultants Advanced Workplace Associates.
Businesses of all sizes and sectors have been warned of the risk of falling foul of new anti-bribery rules, set to come into force next year by Helen Besant-Roberts, business services partner at accountancy firm Hurst.
More needs to be done to help school leavers gain the skills and confidence to land a new job, according to Chris Melvin, chief executive of Reed in Partnership
IT recruiter Concept IT has appointed Tim Hartles as London office sales manager.
Meanwhile Russell Halil and Guatam Raval join as senior recruitment consultants in the London office, along with Omar Saleem and Indy Chatwal as recruitment executives.
Eximius Group has opened its first Middle Eastern office in Dubai.
The Dubai office will be led by office manager Jaimie Cork. The Middle Eastern office will initially focus on the oil & gas, construction and aerospace industries, with plans to move into other sectors in the first quarter of 2011.
Diversity recruiter Equal Approach has appointed Stewart Hastie as head of legal recruitment.
Hastie will head up the new team, recruiting within private practice, as well as for in-house positions, for organisations throughout the UK.
UBS Financial Services has been told to pay $2.8m (£1.8m) to a recruiter previously employed by the firm.
Onwallstreet.com news website reports a panel of Financial Industry Regulatory Authority arbitrators ruled in favour of the claimant, Jeffrey Kane Bischoff, on 29 December .
Homeless charity Shelter is to implement StepStone Solutions Talent Acquisition to manage recruitment across more than 80 locations throughout England and Scotland.
David Evans, head of HR, Shelter, says: “It’s vital that our recruitment process delivers the best value for money and enables us to attract the right talent to meet our charitable aims.
More than half of IT leaders (53%) say IT is becoming ever more involved in managing major change within their organisations.
According to new research from IT recruiter Modis, this includes devising new supply chain solutions, and developing CRM and sales activity to deliver commercial advantages.