The government should consider delaying job cuts in the public sector, according to Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) chief economic adviser, Dr John Philpott.
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Multi-sector recruitment agency Search Consultancy has announced the appointment of Izabella Edwards to the post of divisional manager for call centre and office services.
Previously commercial manager at generalist recruiter Thorn Baker for the East Midlands and Yorkshire regions, Edwards will be based in Sheffield.
Direct candidate sourcing consultancy cph has signed a deal to work with online tag management and tracking service TagMan.
TagMan is looking for candidates with a passion for digital marketing as it looks to double its size over the next 12 months.
The arrangement means a cph consultant will be working onsite with TagMan overseeing the whole recruitment and selection process.
City IT recruiter Cititec has appointed Chris Witts as account delivery consultant and Jamie Reynolds as senior consultant to the permanent team.
Reynolds will focus on software development and quantitative analytics positions. He previously worked for financial services recruiter James Associates and generalist Real Staffing.
The Institute of Interim Management (IIM) has published the ‘Interim Managers’ Guide to Service Providers 2011’.
Available as a free download from the IIM’s website, the guide profiles the top 40 interim management service providers, giving details of the sector and role specialisation of each firm along with contact details.
Engineering sector recruitment firm Orion has appointed Ross MacRae to the role of group human resources director.
MacRae will be based in the company’s head office in Inverness.
MacRae has 20 years industry experience having previously worked for energy and engineering industry service providers Wood Group, Subsea 7 and Halliburton.
Applications for mid-level IT vacancies dropped 22% in Q3 2011 compared to the same period the previous year, according to IT recruitment consultancy IntaPeople.
There is a particular shortfall in areas such as C# and Java developers and business analyst roles, and IntaPeople says young workers need to enter the sector to plug the gap.
With increasingly stringent reference and background checks at banks and other City institutions, director of operations and co-founder of City IT recruiter Cititec has told Recruiter the company is considering creating a screening passport.
The National Apprenticeships Service has launched a campaign through to next March to promote internships as a good investment to London and South-East businesses.
Supported by the office of the Mayor of London, the campaign will focus on press advertising through 65 newspapers.
The Mexican government’s ProMéxico investment programme will help to create 500,000 new jobs with large automobile manufacturers, reports newspaper El Mañana.