Telecommunications operator Telefónica has appointed Simon Linares global HR director for its new Telefónica Digital group.
Linares will be based at the company’s new headquarters in central London.
Linares is set to spearhead a recruitment drive, which will grow the digital unit, formed in September, to around 3,000 employees across the world over the next few years.
IT staff may be tempted to move for only small salary increases, it has been suggested following a survey by IT recruiter The JM Group showing that pay in the sector has remained at the same level or shrunk over the past 12 months.
Personal finance site Moneysupermarket.com has welcomed five new specialist IT recruits to the company following an innovative recruitment process.
Candidates whose CVs passed initial screening were asked to make a video outlining their suitability for roles.
Unemployment will rise in all but three UK regions over the next five years, research by economic consultancy the Centre for Economics and Business Research (Cebr) has suggested.
Pop-up shops are an increasingly common sight on UK high streets. And as Christmas approaches, the number of these ’here today, gone tomorrow’ retailers is set to increase.
However, as a recent roundtable sponsored by specialist accountancy recruiter Balance Recruitment heard, pop-up shops present significant challenges for those firms looking to recruit.
The chief executive of Healthcare Locums (HCL) says the £60m refinancing deal agreed by shareholders in September is a huge opportunity for the company to put the past behind it and to take the company in a new direction.
North-West England executive search firm Mawdsley has reported a 50% rise in turnover against the same point in 2010.
Chief executive Paul Mawdsley says that this growth comes as the Lancashire, Merseyside and Greater Manchester areas have reinvigorated in the past 12 months.
A third of employers have taken on an ex-offender in their company, with over half rating their experiences as positive, according to a survey from the consultancy CfBT Education Trust.
However, only a third of employers agreed that prison education improved the employability of offenders.
A new raft of measures making it easier for UK companies to bring in migrant workers as long as they are willing to pay up to £20,000 a year, as reported by The Sunday Telegraph, are still some way off.
A Home Office spokesperson tells Recruiter: “No decisions on a new visa for migrant workers have been agreed.”
Over 20,000 new jobs were created in the Spanish tourism industry between June and September, according to tourism and hotel industry news service hosteltur.com.