Communicate Recruitment Solutions has established a new IT division.
Kathryn Haralabidis, who brings with her seven years experience in IT recruitment, most recently from Gravitas Recruitment Group, joins the business to establish and grow the IT team, which will offer both permanent and interim IT recruitment to blue chip firms.
Midas Rec2Rec has appointed Rob Muirhead as senior consultant for finance.
Meanwhile, Chris James has been promoted to senior consultant for IT recruitment to recruitment.
Industrial recruiter Jark has appointed Jamie Wingrave as area manager.
Wingrave will help attract new business and provide management support to five Jark Industrial branches.
IT services provider FDM Group is to recruit 150 graduates in Hong Kong within the next year.
FDM offers its graduate Hong Kong IT consultants with a monthly salary of around HK$27k (£2k).
Multi-service recruiter Arbita has launched Arbita RPO.
The new service will manage the entire recruiting and hiring process, from profiling candidates to onboarding new hires.
The firm has also rebranded with a new logo and launched a new website.
Employers and the government have still got work to do around the treatment of young people working for them on internships, according to Alex Try, founder of Interns Anonymous, an online forum for interns.
Try was speaking to Recruiter at The Employers Forum on Age (EFA) roundtable discussions last week in the City of London, chaired by Recruiter editor DeeDee Doke.
Contractor payment firm the cps group has launched a jobs board aimed at the contractor market.
In conjunction with Professional Passport, the jobs board allows recruiters to post unlimited amounts of jobs for free and gain access to contractor recruitment tools.
Legal recruiter GR Law has appointed Husnara Begum as a recruitment consultant.
Begum, who will place lawyers into law firms, is a former solicitor as well as a former editor of legal title The Lawyer’s student magazine, Lawyer 2B.
Job board Indeed.com has made it easier for recruiters to find talent on its site with the launch of a free search engine for CVs.
In employment terms, what young people want is “not much different to what they wanted 10 or 20 years ago. Young people are looking for opportunities”, according to Jon Thorn, employer services director at the National Apprenticeship Service.