Educational recruitment specialist Simply Education has appointed Tony Fletcher as consultant to develop its Northamptonshire secondary desk.
Fletcher joins Simply Education’s team after completing an HND in business management and has more than eight years’ experience in fire and security recruitment.
Multi-sector professional recruiter Twenty Recruitment has appointed Greg Cook as chief operating officer.
Supply teachers increasingly prefer longer term contracts over higher hourly pay, according to research from contractor services provider giant group.
The research from giant group shows that 63.8% of supply teachers would prefer a longer-term contract, compared to 36.2% who would prefer higher hourly pay.
Executive FMCG search and selection recruiter New Chapter Consulting has appointed a number of new recruitment consultants.
In the firm’s Leeds office, Fraser Craig and Richard Evans join the sales sector, while Abbigail Brown and Carolyn Holmes are recruited for NPD [new product development] and operations.
The graduate jobs market is showing early signs of confidence returning, according to Richard Irwin, head of student recruitment at PwC.
Irwin’s comments come as PwC records a 118% increase in applications against the same period last year, having recruited 1,200 full time graduate and student vacancies to start in 2011, while more than 400 internships are also available.
Consolidation in the UK healthcare recruitment sector is set to continue, according to Tim Evans, managing director at deals specialist Boxington Corporate Finance.
Evans’ comments follow FT reports over the weekend that US private equity firm Blackstone had acquired healthcare recruiter Pulse.
Confidence among candidates and employers continues to increase but a full recovery remains some way off, according to international recruiter Hays.
Following legal recruiter ASA Law’s recent acquisition by Initio International, Daniel Lewis has been promoted to managing director of ASA Law, while Keith Miles has been appointed as director.
Lewis was previously a director at ASA Law, while Keith Miles was a senior consultant.
The UAE needs more experienced medical staff as it seeks to dramatically expand its services, according to a survey from healthcare recruiter Your World.
More than 75% of the delegates at questioned by Your World the recent Abu Dhabi Medical Congress event agreed that in order to ease recruitment problems in the area, salaries must rise.
Dean Shoesmith has urged caution on the Office for Budget Responsibility’s (OBR’s) “speculative” downward predictions for public sector job losses.