Headhunters have a role to play in helping women break through glass ceiling, according to Gail Kenny, managing director at Gail Kenny Executive Search.
Executive search firms should educate and encourage clients to embrace diversity, believes Kenny.
International executive search firm Pedersen & Partners has appointed Annetjie Moore as a consultant in South Africa.
Moore was previously HR director at IT solutions firm ATIO responsible for both strategic and operational human resources.
The 2011 business environment finds innovation, globalisation and expansion topping the list of challenges for most organisations, according to new research by leading industry research and consulting firm Bersin & Associates.
The public sector will need to fill 2.1m job vacancies by 2015/16, according to a report from the Centre for Economics and Business Research (CEBR) and Totaljobs.com.
The report also outlines that a £2.5bn saving can be made by the public sector by changing its employment practices by 2015/16 and makes the following policy recommendations:
Contractors claimed a total of around £500,000 in unpaid invoices after the collapse of the UK arm of neutral vendor and workforce management company Albany at the beginning of the year.
Professional staffing recruiter Barclay Meade, part of the Matchtech Group, has appointed Gordon Macfarlane as team leader.
Macfarlane joins from AMEC-owned PI Recruitment, where he spent four years as a senior consultant and business development manager.
He will be based in the firm’s Aberdeen office and reports to Mark McFall, Barclay Meade director of accountancy and finance.
E-recruitment software solutions provider Candidate Manager has agreed a deal with employment and skills provider Working Links to use its software.
The Candidate Manager software aims to help Working Links cut recruitment costs, reduce associated administration time and costs, decrease time-to-hire and increase the quality of applications.
Financial recruiter RK Accountancy has appointed Sachin Ruparelia in its London office.
Ruparelia, who joins from Balanced People, will recruit qualified level finance and accountancy professionals and start leading the development of RK Accountancy in the South.
Canadian recruitment and executive search firm Goldbeck Recruiting, based in Vancouver BC, has launched a finance & accounting division.
The new division will include permanent and contract placements of designated and non-designated professionals including chief financial officers, directors of finance, controllers and financial analysts.
New business sales at recruitment solutions provider Voyager Software are up over 50% in the period from July 2010 to January 2011.
Despite GDP slipping by 0.5% in the final quarter of last year, according to the company November was the best month in Voyager’s history with Q1 2011 looking set to be equally as buoyant.