The expansion of UK retailers into Asian markets could see a surge of procurement jobs created in the UK, according to Peter Burgess, managing director at retail staffing specialist Retail HR.
This comes on the day in which supermarket Tesco reports that itsunderlying profit rose 12.3% to £3.8bn for the year ended February, thanks to a strong performance in Asia.
Staffline’s purchase of welfare-to-work provider Fourstar Employment & Skills will give the industrial recruiter and training firm the ‘third leg’ it has been looking for, according to chairman and chief executive Andy Hogarth.
Multi-sector recruiter Cummins Mellor Recruitment has appointed Caroline Medcalfe as a permanent recruiter focusing on professional accountancy and legal markets.
Medcalfe previously spent several years as managing consultant for Anakin Seal in Manchester.
Recruitment giant Manpower is to extend its use of recruitment software provider Bond International Software’s Adapt following successful deployment throughout Manpower’s North American offices and Germany.
Americans can work in their home country for longer in their early career and still progress professionally than Europeans can, according to an expert on international expatriate issues.
“To grow as a talent in Europe, you must move abroad,” said Alain Verstandig, president of the NET EXPAT Group, which specialises in assessing, training and coaching internationally mobile employees.
Training firm Expedient Training Consultancy’s recruitment apprenticeship scheme is now open for applications from potential employers and candidates.
The scheme, designed exclusively for the recruitment industry, includes the entry-level Certificate in Recruitment Practice delivered by the REC.
The government’s Work Programme, which launches today, needs the adequate infrastructure to ensure workers are matched with sustainable employment, says Carmen Watson, managing director of welfare-to-work provider Pertemps.
The programme aims to get the long-term unemployed back into work by incentivising companies to take on staff and reintegrating them into the working life.
Following a report this week by the parliamentary home affairs committee, which claims that a cap on migration would lead to a cut of less than 1% overall in annual net arrivals, the Recruitment & Employment Confederation (REC) has warned of the dangers of such a cap.
Actuarial IT professionals working in the insurance sector are receiving pay rises of up to 50% due to insurers upgrading their systems to be fully compliant with new regulatory standards, according to ReThink Recruitment.
Executive search firm Heidrick & Struggles International has been retained to lead the search for the new national chief executive of the Girl Scouts of the USA.
The move follows outgoing CEO Kathy Cloninger’s announcement to retire in September and her plans to step down from her position in November next year.