HR departments should priortise nurturing talent, according to HR recruiters.
Caroline Foote, managing director at HR moves, told Recruiter: “We have noticed the increase in organisations recruiting senior talent people of heads of talent or development of talent.
Commercial and transport recruiter The Best Connection has opened a new office in Croydon.
The new branch will cater for the driving, industrial and warehousing & distribution sectors.
Multi-sector recruiter Manpower has announced that David Arkless, Manpower’s president of corporate and government affairs, is going on a field mission to refugee settlements in South Africa, Mozambique and Namibia to better understand the plight of refugees and to identify how the recruiter can help them return to employment.
Executive search firm Whitehead Mann is to close offices in the Midlands, Leeds and Edinburgh.
Following a structural review, Whitehead Mann announced the closures but plans to strengthen its presence in the growth areas of Asia and the Middle East.
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HVS Executive Search, an international retained search firm specialising in the hotel, restaurant, gaming and retail industries, has appointed David Mansbach to co-president for North America.
Mansbach, with 20 years of hospitality experience, rejoins the company and will oversee the executive search and compensation consulting platform.
St Patrick’s day party not pooped
The St Patrick day’s party goes on despite the recession, according to hospitality recruiters.
Finance recruiter Coningham Lee has decided not to go ahead with a planned office opening in Dubai as a result of the slowdown there.
Current conditions are different than most of us have experienced, so we all need to adapt to different strategies, offering clients and candidates new initiatives and more effective services.
Clients need to know how they want to present their brand so that recruiters know how to sell them to possible future employees, according to the group marketing director at Nigel Wright Recruitment.
Ian Scott-Bell told an audience of HR professionals that it is really important for recruiters to know how clients see their brand so that reality can be sold to potential candidates.