The Chinese operations of Nike and GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) have implemented Lumesse’s TalentLink software for its recruitment across Greater China and Asia as a whole.
A team of 11 China-based recruiters for Nike and 18 for GSK will work with the software in the initial phase of implementation.
The public sector will lead job creation in the UAE in 2012, with technology, healthcare, education and retail and telecom, according recruiters speaking to Emirates247.com.
Venn Group, the professional temporary recruitment specialist, has appointed Danbro — the accountancy and payroll firm for contract workers — onto its umbrella PSL.
Danbro’s business development manager, Mike Rhodes, says: “Venn Group is a fantastic recruitment company to be working with and we are looking forward to developing a long-lasting business relationship with them.”
Lyssa Barber has joined global financial markets search firm Allemby Hunt as managing consultant and head of private wealth management.
Previously at financial services executive search recruiter Lockwood Gibb & Associates, Barber specialises in wealth and investment management recruitment.
HVS Executive Search, a global specialist executive search and advisory firm for the hospitality sector, has appointed Paige Brewer as global head of compensation consulting.
Brewer comes from a background in total rewards management within a number of industries, including consumer goods, publishing/media, financial services and hospitality.
The construction of an Air Products’ renewable energy facility would create between 500 and 700 new engineering and construction jobs, according to a spokesperson for the energy firm.
This week, Air Products announced it had won planning permission from Stockton-on-Tees Borough Council for a renewable energy facility near Billingham, Teesside.
J Robert Scott, a leading global executive search firm, has appointed Douglas Mann as a managing director in its financial services practice.
Based in New York, Mann will focus on the insurance sector within the practice, working closely with Roderick Haire in the firm’s Hong Kong office to grow the practice globally.
Energy recruiter Spencer Ogden has launched an energy trading and finance division.
Management search firm Expion Search & Selection has appointed Steve Mckiernan as recruitment manager for its engineering division.
Mckiernan joins the firm from Edwards & Pearce, where he was a divisional manager.
US food wholesaler C&S Wholesale Grocers has selected Kenexa Simulations to engage candidates through interactive web-based job simulations.