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The Institute of Recruiters (IOR), a new professional body for recruiters that launched on 1 June, expects to have 10,000 members within three years.
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Nurture People (formerly known as Connect Group Consulting) has acquired enterprise resource planning (ERP) consultancy Makoto ERP and IT recruiter Ellen Webb.
Makoto has a network of over 100,000 ERP consultants worldwide, while City-based Ellen Webb coves all areas of the IT contract and permanent market.
Recruiters have a role to play in improving the quality of talent available to schools in the teaching profession, according to John Dunn, director at educational staffing specialist, Randstad Education.
Executive search and consultancy services firm Norman Broadbent has acquired Human Asset Development International Ltd (HADIL), a provider of psychological assessment, talent audit, executive coaching and applied research services.
HADIL will remain separate from the executive search services provided by the group so as to present an independent and objective service.
Confidence continues to rise among candidates despite today’s rise in unemployment, according to Charles Logan, director at Hays.
Executive search firm Spencer Stuart has been selected to assist in the search for the next executive vice president and chief operating officer of the University of Virginia.
The new appointee will succeed Leonard W Sandridge, who will retire in July after 44 years of service to the University of Virginia.
Higher tuition fees for university students could be the catalyst for earlier engagement of graduate employers with potential young recruits. This key theme emerged from a Graduate Recruitment Roundtable supported by Michael Page, the Employers Forum on Age (EFA) and Recruiter, which was held in London last week.
IT recruiter Outsource UK has appointed Andrea Williams as sales director.
Williams was previously managing director of an Australian-listed recruitment business in Hong Kong, and has experience working within Australia and Asia, as well as the UK.
Executive search firm Creative Search Sweden is to change its name to AIMS International Sweden on 1 February.
The firm has been the exclusive partner in Sweden for global search firm AIMS International since 1998, but decided to keep the Creative Search name until now.
International security firm G4S Secure Solutions has appointed Julian Duxfield as its new regional HR director.
Duxfield takes responsibility for the overall strategic leadership of the HR function for G4S in the UK and Ireland, which has over 42,000 employees managed from more than 80 offices across seven different businesses.