Successful social media strategy needs to be aligned to recruitment and business strategy, according to Arie Ball, vice president for talent acquisition at Sodexo USA.
At TRU [The Recruiter Unconference] London 3, Ball told delegates that Sodexo had looked to social media vehicles to rebound from a “humongous” disaster of outsourcing its recruitment in 2004.
Trials of an innovative new technology that measures a user’s psychometric ability through voice have revealed that it can halve attrition rates and is proving particularly applicable to volume recruitment for contact centres.
Online candidate network iProfile has signed up a number of new recruiters.
These include:
· Cathedral Recruitment
· Crimson Recruitment
· Sales Logic
· Provide
· Concept IT
· Vertex
It’s a record year for Recruiter’s Awards for Excellence 2011, supported by Innovate CV. With more than 300 entries to examine, Recruiter’s blue-chip panel of judges, drawn from agency and in-house recruitment experts and financial aces, has narrowed down the field of contenders.
Financial services staffing specialist Astbury Marsden has appointed Mark Farris and John Regan to its board of directors.
Farris, the co-founder of property recruiter Judd Farris, joins as a non-executive director, while Regan joined Astbury Marsden as finance director in December 2007.
Public sector vacancies are falling “considerably”, according to Karen Masterson, director at Working Links.
Commenting on March’s Working Links Employment Insight report, Masterson says the public sector had benefited from the temporary boost of the UK’s Census but vacancies are still falling considerably.
There have been a number of comments in the press pertaining to Maggie Pattinson’s employment tribunal case against the Recruitment & Employment Confederation (REC), which are incorrect and we would like to make the following observations on her behalf.
Transline Resource Industrial has agreed a sole supplier contract with online women’s fashion retailer boohoo.com.
Transline Resource Industrial has begun supplying up to 70 locally sourced warehouse operatives a day, including pickers, packers and team leaders.
Global executive search firm Heidrick & Struggles International has appointed Dave Winston global managing partner of its aerospace, defence and aviation practice.
Winston, who joined Heidrick & Struggles in 2005 with the acquisition of retained executive search firm Highland Partners, will concurrently lead the firm’s Dallas office as partner-in-charge.
The results of the vote for the Association of Professional Staffing Companies’ (APSCo) 2011-12 Executive Committee were revealed yesterday (Thursday, 31 March 2011) at the organisation’s Annual General Meeting.
Full members voted onto the Executive Committee were: