Communicate Recruitment Solutions has launched a new banking and financial services team.
The new team will focus on placing candidates in roles from vice president to managing director across the interim and permanent market of change management and accounting.
Education staffing specialist Strategy Education has appointed Alex Collins as an education consultant.
Collins has experience of teaching and coaching within schools and training establishments within Essex and London.
Half of contractors say recruiters are more relevant than ever before, according to a survey from accountancy firm Brookson.
HR consultancy Mode HR has decided to change its name to AIMS International Executive Search.
Mode HR had previously retained its original name following its selection as exclusive representative of AIMS International for Australia two years ago.
Headquartered in Vienna, Austria, AIMS International Executive Search has offices in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane and New Zealand.
Successful social media strategy needs to be aligned to recruitment and business strategy, according to Arie Ball, vice president for talent acquisition at Sodexo USA.
At TRU [The Recruiter Unconference] London 3, Ball told delegates that Sodexo had looked to social media vehicles to rebound from a “humongous” disaster of outsourcing its recruitment in 2004.
Trials of an innovative new technology that measures a user’s psychometric ability through voice have revealed that it can halve attrition rates and is proving particularly applicable to volume recruitment for contact centres.
Online candidate network iProfile has signed up a number of new recruiters.
These include:
· Cathedral Recruitment
· Crimson Recruitment
· Sales Logic
· Provide
· Concept IT
· Vertex
It’s a record year for Recruiter’s Awards for Excellence 2011, supported by Innovate CV. With more than 300 entries to examine, Recruiter’s blue-chip panel of judges, drawn from agency and in-house recruitment experts and financial aces, has narrowed down the field of contenders.
Financial services staffing specialist Astbury Marsden has appointed Mark Farris and John Regan to its board of directors.
Farris, the co-founder of property recruiter Judd Farris, joins as a non-executive director, while Regan joined Astbury Marsden as finance director in December 2007.
Public sector vacancies are falling “considerably”, according to Karen Masterson, director at Working Links.
Commenting on March’s Working Links Employment Insight report, Masterson says the public sector had benefited from the temporary boost of the UK’s Census but vacancies are still falling considerably.