On-demand talent management solutions provider Taleo has signed a definitive agreement to acquire cloud-based solutions provider Jobpartners for roughly $38m (£23.4m).
The acquisition has been approved by Jobpartners’ board of directors and is expected to close in the quarter ending September 30, 2011 subject to customary closing conditions.
Remember the last time you took a lunch break?
Apparently, one in five workers never take a lunch break, while 60% regularly don’t take lunch, according to research from staffbay.com.
Whether the other 40% was at McDonald’s when the survey was carried out was not revealed, however.
Eploy has added a new social recruiting toolkit to its software, aimed at the corporate market. Chris Bogh, technical director, told Recruiter that eploy didn’t want to jump on the social media bandwagon and rush new features to market when the new channels leapt on to the scene.
Failing to use mobile technology as a candidate attraction channel is “turning your back on candidates”, a self-described “mobile recruiting evangelist” warned in-house recruiters last week.
Kate Bleasdale, HCL
Half of GPs claim the new fit note system has not helped people keep their job during an illness, according to research conducted by ComRes on behalf of Legal & General.
The research also shows 47% of GPs disagree that the new system gives them a clearer role in helping people keep their jobs during an illness.
Multi-sector recruiter career moves strengthened its team with new appointments.
Lucy Peel joins as account manager for temps, while Kelly Howe has been promoted to head of career moves.
Peel will job share with Sarah Savage, senior account manager for temps.
Olivia Woodhead joins as resourcer and Annetta Troth is career moves’ business enhancement consultant.
The 2008 winner of The Apprentice, former recruiter Lee McQueen is the latest addition to interactive video-based website bemyinterviewer.co.uk from Jobsite.co.uk.
A complaint against hospitality recruiter International Hospitality Recruitment (IHR) has not been upheld by the Advertising Standards Authority.
HR business process outsourcing (BPO) organisation Talent2 has restructured its business under four service offerings: HR advisory, recruitment, payroll and learning.
Meanwhile, the firm’s London office is opening a new media, sports & entertainment practice, led by Alistair Waddington, previously with IMG Media, and is also set to launch an interim appointments practice.