Global recruiter Manpower and solutions and software development systems provider Microsoft are developing joint programmes to help fight youth unemployment.
The Memorandum of Understanding sees Microsoft and Manpower work with other partners to develop a training curriculum for young entrepreneurs to foster leading-edge technical, organisational and business development skills.
Allowing employers to asking women about having children, or how they will fit their career around their current children, would be unwelcome and counterproductive, according to Maggie Berry, managing director of IT job board and diversity recruiter Women in Technology.
Following yesterday’s announcement by the chancellor of an enterprise zone covering the Royal Docks in the East End of London, the mayor of Newham has warned that the zone must avoid the mistakes of enterprise zones in the past.
Sir Robin Wales says: “We have led the call for an enterprise zone in this area, as a key foundation of our post-Olympics legacy.
Recruitment-to-recruitment firm People Prospect Solutions has appointed Rebecca Bowring-Kingman as recruitment director.
Bowring-Kingman joins from Robert Half International where she was a South Coast branch manager.
Her new role sees her recruit across the South Coast, London and Home Counties.
Business-to-business marketing agency McDonald Butler has launched a recruitment portal powered by online recruitment platform MyPeopleBiz.
The portal aims enable firms to extend their scope in the market to social media and external referrals, while the portal also offers fixed-fee recruiting.
Executive search firm Heidrick & Struggles has appointed Claire Skinner and Alex Ross as consultants.
The pair join the firm’s industrial practice division in the US.
Primat Recruitment, part of consultancy engineering and project management services provider AMEC group, has appointed Morag Young and Gemma Hutcheon as candidate care consultants.
Young and Hutcheon will act as the first point of contact for candidate queries and will have responsibility for supporting Primat candidates during their assignment.
Built environment staffing specialist The Management Recruitment Group has appointed Ashley Miskin as practice manager, property & surveying.
Miskin will be based in the firm’s Central London.
A newly opened research centre in Sofia, Bulgaria, will improve international headhunter JordanSheppard’s services to international clients, according to the company.
The public sector is well prepared with the necessary talent in place to respond to increased industrial action, according to Gillian Hibberd, past president of PPMA and strategic director resourcing and business transformation at Buckinghamshire County Council.