Online candidate-to-employer matching solution HireMatch.me is set to work with point-of-sale and promotional communications agency ADM Promotions.
ADM will identify key development areas among workers from HireMatch.me’s ‘Work Behaviour Assessment’ programme, developing hiring and training plans.
A Tesco ‘regeneration partnership store’ has opened in Sheffield, getting over 100 long-term unemployed back into work.
UK multi-sector executive search firm Snowdon Tate has joined executive search network Signium International.
David Sneesby, managing partner of Snowdon Tate, says the number of executive searches his business is carrying out has trebled in the last three years.
Signium now has 41 offices in 27 countries across the world.
The recruitment industry’s favourite social business network LinkedIn thrives on people giving up-to-date and full information about themselves and their professional life.
A huge new Facebook data centre covering 30,000sq m – the size of 11 football pitches – will create at least 30 full-time roles in Sweden’s arctic circle city of Luleå.
The environmentally-friendly site will be the largest facility of its kind in Europe, and will handle all Facebook data for Europe, the Middle East and Africa.
Career and talent management organisation Fairplace Cedar has appointed Penny de Valk as chief executive.
De Valk joins from the Institute of Leadership and Management, where she had held the position of CEO since 2007, having previously worked for HR services firm Ceridian and the Institute of Management in her native New Zealand.
Engineering and technical recruiter Morson has announced the appointment of Sophie Shriram who will lead the new Aberdeen office alongside Sarah Hutcheon.
Hutcheon says: “The North Sea market remains particularly buoyant with many industry commentators predicting 2012 will be even busier in the city.”
The new Aberdeen office could create up to 20 new jobs, the company says.
South African unemployment dropped by nearly 1% in Q2 2011, reports newspaper Business Day.
There was a net increase in jobs of 193,000 over the period, an increase of 1.5% compared to the previous quarter.
Recruitment process outsourcing firm cph has appointed four new members of staff.
Tom Couldwell takes the role of senior recruiter and will work onsite with an IT client in London.
Amanda Law and Matthew Norval have joined as resourcing consultants in the North-West, and Alexis Ward as a recruitment co-ordinator.
Bidding wars have increased salaries and bonuses for senior IT staff working at hedge by 30% and 60% respectively compared to last year, according to business and technology recruiters ReThink Recruitment.