Legal, banking and engineering recruiter Eximius Group has appointed Astbury Marsden co-founder Jonathan Astbury to its senior finance team.
Astbury has over 20 years’ financial services experience, having also founded recruitment consultancy Sandton Group, and worked at Harrison Willis.
Age “is just an irrelevance” when recruiting, according the resourcing director at energy giant Centrica.
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Global professional and managerial recruiter Antal International has opened a new office in Rome.
Enzo Pizza, who rejoins Antal after several years with Xerox, will lead the new office in Rome.
Workforce decision support solutions provider HumanConcepts has expanded the launch of its Transition Manager solution to the UK.
The solution enables organisations to manage the end-to-end processes around reorganisation, restructuring and the resulting workforce separations.
Hotel chain Travelodge is set to create 1,300 new recruits to fill entry-level and management roles.
More than one in 10 senior executives at UK firms are planning to add permanent, professional-level staff in H2 2011, according to Robert Half’s latest Professional Hiring Index.
The Index also reveals four in 10 executives say that they are ‘more confident’ about the prospects facing their companies in the second half of 2011, than they were six months ago.
Information security and risk management recruiter Acumin Consulting has launched its services in the US market.
The move comes on the back of demand from US-based vendors that Acumin has previously serviced within Europe and Acumin’s desire to build a global Information Security recruitment practice.
John Lewis is on the hunt for store managers and store level staff to fill 3,000 new jobs at 10 new small department stores, according to a spokesperson for John Lewis.
June saw a 22% increase in construction vacancies, according to the latest data from totaljobs.com.
The research the electronics and engineering industries saw a 20% increase in jobs posted but some sectors such as social services (-41%) and education (-20%) as well as the third sector (-22%).