Bournemouth multi-sector recruiter Bond Williams has appointed Kate Allen and Robin Brian as senior recruitment consultants.
Allen has seven years’ recruitment experience in office-based and finance roles. She joins the commercial permanent recruitment desk.
East Anglian generalist recruiter Cooper Lomaz has recently appointed Dan Benson and Chris Beech as consultants.
Benson’s previous experience has been in both the specialist and commercial recruitment sectors. He is responsible for oil & gas and renewable energy placements.
Beech brings with him four years’ experience in the specialist and technical recruitment sector.
Accountancy firm KPMG Europe has appointed Tim Payne as head of people.
Payne succeeds Rachel Campbell who recently took on the global head of people, performance and culture role for KPMG International.
Employment in the nation’s mining industry is at a 14-year high, reports the Charleston (West Virginia) Daily Mail.
According to data from the federal Mine Safety and Health Administration, the number of coal jobs across the country is at its highest level since 1996, with 90,354 jobs in 2011.
Law firm Linklaters has appointed Chris Lynch as the firm’s new global HR director.
Lynch will join the firm in February, having held the position of global head of HR at law firm Herbert Smith since 2008.
Lynch will be based in London. She replaces Jill King, who retired from Linklaters in October.
HR solutions provider Kenexa has partnered with LinkedIn, as part of an initiative whose major aim is to reduce the number of applications abandoned due to long and complicated application processes.
Sadie Walker has been appointed to multi-sector recruiter Ainsley Morgan Appointments to head up the firm’s HR sector.
Walker left the firm in 2008 and has most recently been working for Volt Consulting’s contractor employee solutions division Pfizer MSP.
North-West recruiter Genesis Associates has acquired analytics recruitment consultancy PeopleGenius.
PeopleGenius now works in Genesis’s Manchester office, with PeopleGenius managing director Daniel Holdsworth taking a senior role in Genesis, focusing on growing the analytics division.
Software firm SAP will acquire cloud-based human capital management solutions firm SuccessFactors.
SAP will hand over around $3.4bn (£2.2bn) as part of the purchase, which was unanimously approved by SuccessFactors’ board.
