Specialist PR and communication recruiter VMA Group has appointed Julia Meighan to the newly created role of executive chair.
Meighan will be responsible for leading the group’s international expansion, as well as special projects in talent management within the corporate communications sector.
Business failures among medium and large sized firms dropped year-on-year in June, according to the latest Insolvency Index from global information services company Experian.
Despite the loss of its 752 care homes, Southern Cross, the UK’s biggest care home group, says it’s recruitment as usual, while ownership of its homes is transferred to new operators.
Earlier this month, Southern Cross announced an “orderly closure” of its operations, after its 80 landlords took back their 752 care homes after the group ran into financial difficulties.
The European community needs a “single strand of co-ordinated structure to address an approach to creation of employment”, according to Gerry Skelton, HR director at air traffic controller NATS and a UK representative at the European HR Directors Circle.
More than half of UK workers say pay and benefits is their top motivator in seeking a new job, according to the Chartered Institute of Personnel & Development’s latest ‘Employee Outlook’ survey.
New figures which reveal that one in 14 incapacity claimants are unfit to work are “misleading”, according to Matthew Lester, director of operations at disability charity, Papworth Trust.
Figures out today from Department for Work and Pensions show 39% of claimants are fit to work, while more than a third drop their application before it is complete.
While the service sector recorded strong growth in July, the UK’s economy is likely to continue to see a “weak pace of growth” for the rest of 2011, according to Teodor Todorov, economist at Centre for Economics and Business Research.
Talent management provider Kenexa has acquired The Ashbourne Group, a supplier of HR and occupational psychology services to businesses in the UK and Ireland for nearly 20 years.
The Ashbourne Group provides a range of behavioral assessment, learning and development products based on government competencies and performance standards.
Multi-sector recruiter Prime Appointments has launched a social care division.
The division specialises in sourcing senior professionals within the care sector.
Fiona Faircloth has been appointed as a consultant to recruit for the division.
Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) has denied reports that it is to embark on a recruitment drive early next year.