Middle-East hotel chain Safir International Hotels has appointed Ahmed Mourad as corporate HR director.
He was previously country director of HR & sustainable development at Accor Egypt.
Mourad is also a former director of HR & administration at Abercrombie & Kent.
Multi-sector recruiter HR GO Recruitment has appointed Joy Edkins as branch manager of its Bishop’s Stortford office.
Global talent management solutions provider StepStone Solutions has been chosen to implement an e-recruitment strategy for French national bank Banque de France.
Web-based applicant tracking systems Candidate Manager has appointed Ffyona Cunningham as partnership and marketing manager.
Before joining Candidate Manager, Cunningham was marketing director at Ibney Company in Uruguay, South America.
Executive search firm Carmichael Fisher has appointed Gerry Arbuckle as a senior consultant in its legal executive search team.
Arbuckle joins from boutique recruitment firm, Nicholas Scott to focus on further developing executive search activity across the firm’s private practice division.
He will be based at Carmichael Fisher’s European headquarters in London.
Global professional recruiter Morgan McKinley has made three director-level appointments in its financial services division
Global relocation firm Brookfield Global Relocation Services has opened a service centre in Bangalore, India.
Anoop Pabby, most recently managing director of Deutsche Postbank Home Finance, will serve as country head, India. He has 22 years of experience in the Indian insurance and retail financial services industry.
Online recruitment platform MyPeopleBiz has integrated media insight agency Kantar Media’s bespoke recruitment portal to automatically synchronise to the company’s Facebook page.
Multinational firms operating in China need to improve their talent attraction and retention strategies or face losing out to Chinese private-owned businesses.
According to Jeff Joerres, Manpower chairman and chief executive, an intensifying war for senior level talent is leading to local workers starting to favour Chinese private-owned companies.
A discrimination law expert advised a London audience this week that whether ‘positive action’ will be allowed as a tie-break when considering the hire or promotion of two equally qualified candidates will be “one to watch” over the coming months.