Provider of support services to the recruitment industry Recruitment Support Services has purchased certain assets from the administrator of Skills Market Ltd, best known for its iProfile and Skills Passport products.
Skills Market had recently seen the withdrawal of a long-term investor in the company and was therefore unable to continue trading in its current form.
Indian education solutions provider CORE Projects & Technologies has acquired UK education recruiter ITN Mark Education for around $25m (£15.4m), through its subsidiary Core Education and Consulting Solutions (UK).
The Recruitment & Employment Confederation (REC) and Pure Recruitment Training have entered into a partnership to offer REC members exclusive access to Pure’s interactive online recruitment learning courses.
Learners using the course are taught to use more innovative ways of recruiting, which avoid the over-reliance on job boards and out-of-date candidate databases.
Employers need help to navigate the apprenticeship “minefield”, according to the chief executive of the Employers Forum on Age (EFA).
Almost four in 10 local authorities have increased permanent staff member headcount over the last two years, according to new research.
The research, conducted under the Freedom of Information Act by PeoplePerHour.com, also reveals the number of freelancers employed by local councils had risen by over a third during the same two-year period.
Hays Education warns that removing the requirement for teachers to do a university-based course completely could be counter-productive and undervalue the teaching profession.
International recruiter Empresaria’s Headway brand has now taken a majority shareholding in Hungary-based recruiter Summers Group.
Web-based applicant tracking systems Candidate Manager has appointed Anil Aphale as business development manager for the South of the UK.
Aphale was previously international business development manager at TipTopJobs.com.
Chancellor George Osborne should deliver a Budget that “revolutionises” trading conditions for Britain’s smaller firms, according to the Forum of Private Business.
The not-for-profit organisation’s main Budget recommendations calls on the coalition to:
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.