Supermarket Sainsbury’s is to create 50,000 new jobs in the UK as part of a new £1bn sustainability plan, which sets targets between now and 2020.
The plan addresses four key areas:
· Sustainable and healthy products – including Best for British. By 2020, to double the amount of British food sold.
Multi-sector recruiter Change Recruitment has added Gareth Durante and Marc O’Donnell to its financial services team.
Durante joins as a senior consultant and O’Donnell as a business manager.
UK recruiter Stafforce Personnel has acquired specialist staffing provider TEK Personnel Consultants, according to Insider News Yorkshire.
Terms of the deal were not disclosed, but the acquisition is Stafforce’s third in the past six months.
The Forum of Private Business’s legal helpline has seen employment law queries dwarf other concerns, says a study published by the trade organisation.
Telecommunications operator Telefónica has appointed Simon Linares global HR director for its new Telefónica Digital group.
Linares will be based at the company’s new headquarters in central London.
Linares is set to spearhead a recruitment drive, which will grow the digital unit, formed in September, to around 3,000 employees across the world over the next few years.
IT staff may be tempted to move for only small salary increases, it has been suggested following a survey by IT recruiter The JM Group showing that pay in the sector has remained at the same level or shrunk over the past 12 months.
Personal finance site Moneysupermarket.com has welcomed five new specialist IT recruits to the company following an innovative recruitment process.
Candidates whose CVs passed initial screening were asked to make a video outlining their suitability for roles.
Unemployment will rise in all but three UK regions over the next five years, research by economic consultancy the Centre for Economics and Business Research (Cebr) has suggested.
Pop-up shops are an increasingly common sight on UK high streets. And as Christmas approaches, the number of these ’here today, gone tomorrow’ retailers is set to increase.
However, as a recent roundtable sponsored by specialist accountancy recruiter Balance Recruitment heard, pop-up shops present significant challenges for those firms looking to recruit.
The chief executive of Healthcare Locums (HCL) says the £60m refinancing deal agreed by shareholders in September is a huge opportunity for the company to put the past behind it and to take the company in a new direction.