IT recruiter JM Group has launched its digital recruitment arm, as it expands away from the banking sector to work with digital marketing agencies.
In the last few years the company has seen a big rise in demand for digital staff within the banking sector, driven by web-based trading systems, and social media and mobile technology.
Over a quarter of small businesses have difficulties finding suitably skilled staff at start up, despite there being 2.62m people unemployed, according to figures from the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB).
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Commerciality and corporate social responsibility can co-exist — and candidates for sustainability-centric jobs increasingly reflect such dualfocused mindsets, according to Andrew Cartland, managing director of sustainability recruiter Acre Resources.
Contractjobs.com, a site containing contract jobs across all industry sectors worldwide, has been launched.
Contractors search by location, daily rate and industry from either direct employers or recruiters with only live contracts displayed.
Aircraft manufacturer Airbus plans to recruit for more than 3,000 new jobs and 2,500 internships at locations worldwide.
A survey on behalf of IT security experts SecurEnvoy of 1,000 London workers revealed just 11% were affected by the teachers strike in June, yet 55% believe that the threat of future strikes would encourage their employers to introduce IT measures to allow them to work from home.
Recruitment technology provider Kamanchi has launched new business division i-Learn, which aims to help recruiters maximise profitability from investment in IT infrastructure.
The team will be headed up by Mike Jewsbury, who has held senior roles at Spring Group, Adecco and Randstad. Mike is joined by Samra Ali who joins Kamanchi from Hays.
Students are increasingly keen to engage with future employers early, according to Richard Irwin, student recruitment manager at professional services firm PwC. Irwin told Recruiter that research conducted by PwC found a “real demand from students which many employers are not exploiting in terms of identifying students early and engaging with them and their development”.
RPO provider Alexander Mann Solutions has launched a new sourcing engine – source cloud.
The solution implements candidate relationship management software as well as a sourcing intelligence tool to create a bank of international active and passive candidates. The system can also be integrated with the client’s applicant tracking systems.