Huge potential in the renewable energy industry, which could provide 10,000 direct jobs by 2020 in the tidal and wave sector alone, requires a solution to a shortage of talent.
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Professional services company Towers Watson has appointed Arvinder Dhesi to lead its UK talent and organisation practice.
INTERNATIONAL RECRUITER Hays’ entry into the US oil & gas market will help the firm become a truly global player in this most international of sectors, according to the man in charge of its US operations.
Legal, tech and financial recruiter Argyll Scott International has hired Mark Walters to launch a new private practice division within its legal recruitment operation.
Telecommunications firm BT is recruiting a further 250 engineers from outgoing armed forces personnel to its local access project Openreach.
Ron Knox, the former regional director of testing and assessment firm Thomas International, joins interim management provider Russam GMS as principal consultant.
Recruiters should use Twitter in a personal capacity before taking the plunge and launching a corporate Twitter account, said Katharine Robinson, sourcing recruitment manager at Capgemini. She told a meeting of the Forum of In-House Recruiters (The FIRM) in London last month Robinson: “Be a Twitter user first before you use it to promote your brand. Just be a guy or a girl and Tweet about The X Factor. You can make mistakes and it doesn’t matter, it is completely safe.” Panellists debated the pros and cons
The pawnbroking industry is in rude health, with the creation by The Money Shop of 330 jobs at 50 new pawnbroker stores coming in the same month as two other pawnbrokers created a total of 550 jobs.
Robert Half International’s results show that the recruiter’s net income in the calendar year 2011 was $149.9m (£95.3m), more than twice the 2010 figure of $66.1m.
THE FAILURE to put talent fi rst in nearly every talent management process, and recruiting in particular, is a global issue, according to the renowned US HR and talent industry professional Master Burnett.