Multi-sector recruiter Archer Mathieson has hired three new senior consultants.
Adrian Penge, ex-Walker Hamill and Hoggett Bowers, joins the firm’s finance search practice last week, alongside Lucy Martin, previously with Michael Page International, who joins the HR interim team. While HR search consultant Bill Paris joins from Digby Morgan.
Background screening services General Information Services (GIS) is to provide full-service background screenings for Kenexa.
The screening will be for Kenexa’s (the global provider of business solutions for HR services) Integrated Talent Management (ITM) solutions.
Market research specialist Hasson Associates Recruitment has appointed two new consultants.
Catherine Vaughan joins as senior associate, working on a range of client-side and agency roles. She was previously practice head at recruitment specialist RPCushing and before that, senior recruitment consultant at PriceJamieson.
The government should consider cutting tax on fuel to boost British business and the recruitment industry as whole, according to Chris Chidley, Driver Hire’s chief executive.
The Grafton Employment Group has appointed Robert Dix as chairman.
The group comprises seven sector brands including Grafton Recruitment, Spengler Fox, Grafton Technologies, Blueprint Appointments, Grafton ESP, Grafton Healthcare and Maryb.ie.
Dix will be responsible for working with the Grafton Employment Group board to steer future growth of the company.
Legal recruiter Tailored Solutions has appointed Bethany Wright as consultant.
Working in the firm’s private practice fee earner division, Wright will work alongside Tailored Solutions’ legal director Karen Jones with South Wales & West clients.
She joins from legal recruiters Legal People.
Numbers of permanent placements and temporary/contract billings rose at faster rates in January, according to the latest Report on Jobs from the Recruitment & Employment Confederation (REC).
More than nine in 10 (93%) of school leavers plan to work part-time throughout their university lives to fund their studies, according to research from Friends Provident.
The research also shows 59% believe they will have to undertake unpaid work experience to secure a good job.
South Africa is to invest R73bn over the next three years in community, environmental and maintenance and infrastructure projects, South African Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan announced in the country’s budget.
Gordhan committed to:
Multi-sector recruiter Cummins Mellor Recruitment has appointed Raymond Ellington as permanent hospitality consultant.
Ellington has worked in recruitment and also as a sous chef and head chef across gastro pubs and rosette restaurants.