Search specialist Odgers Ray & Berndtson is finding the new England cricket team director.
The England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) has created the role for Peter Moores’ successor as coach.
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Two lucky readers of Recruiter have won copies of The Professional Recruiter’s Handbook: Delivering excellence in recruitment practice by recruitment management consultant Jane Newell Brown and APSCO chief executive Ann Swain.
Figures from the Office for National Statistics show the claimant count rate rose by 73,700 in March.
Software provider Voyager Software says that 25% of its customers in this calendar year have been start-ups, indicating a trend in recruitment professionals setting up low-cost recruitment practices on their own.
Deleting names from CVs could be a step too far but the removal of details alluding to age, religion or background has been backed by HR recruiters.
James Caan is on the lookout for a finance manager, reporting directly to him, for his Mayfair-based private equity firm, Hamilton Bradshaw. Presumably the successful candidate will be told: “You’re good with my money and for that reason, I’m investing in you.”
There are signs of improvement in the jobs market, with June’s fall in permanent job appointments the weakest for 13 months, according to the latest REC/KPMG survey.
The number of permanent job vacancies saw its weakest decline in nine months, while the drop in temporary vacancies was at its lowest in eight months.
Former shareholders of Academics Holdings and Academics, which was acquired by Servoca in March 2008, have been awarded an earn-out worth more than £2m, as well as more than 7m shares.
I was disappointed to read Steve Huxham’s comments on the Institute of Recruitment Professionals (“IRP: tweaking or enhancing,” 8 July 2009).