At a visit to a community college outside of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, President Obama and vice-president Joe Biden announced grants worth $150m (£89m) to expand apprenticeships.
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The traditionally lowly job of administrative assistant has evolved into a complex and important role making a good administrative assistant hard to replace, according to international staffing company Manpower.
There are just two weeks to go until the Recruiter Awards for Excellence on 7 May.
Technical recruiter Penta Consulting and energy recruiter Spencer Ogden are being recognised for outstanding business achievement with one of the UK’s top honours, the Queen’s Awards for Enterprise 2014.
Expectations! Recruitment Services, the commercial sector recruiter, has hired two apprentices. Becki Hume and Lucy Bull join the Gloucester and Cheltenham offices respectively, filling administrative roles for the agency.
Gant UK, the luxury clothing brand, has hired Caroline Shine as head of HR and training.
Andrew Burchall is to step down from the board of Impellam, the provider of managed services and specialist staffing expertise.
The Lawrence Harvey Group, the global recruitment business, has hired Barry Cullen as general counsel.
Strategic Resources, the provider of recruitment and associated services to the energy industry, has promoted Gary Gray to the new position of associate director with the Aberdeen company.
Towers Watson, the global professional services company, has announced several senior promotions within its executive compensation consultancy team as well as a significant senior hire in the UK.