Employment in the nation’s mining industry is at a 14-year high, reports the Charleston (West Virginia) Daily Mail.
According to data from the federal Mine Safety and Health Administration, the number of coal jobs across the country is at its highest level since 1996, with 90,354 jobs in 2011.
Law firm Linklaters has appointed Chris Lynch as the firm’s new global HR director.
Lynch will join the firm in February, having held the position of global head of HR at law firm Herbert Smith since 2008.
Lynch will be based in London. She replaces Jill King, who retired from Linklaters in October.
HR solutions provider Kenexa has partnered with LinkedIn, as part of an initiative whose major aim is to reduce the number of applications abandoned due to long and complicated application processes.
Sadie Walker has been appointed to multi-sector recruiter Ainsley Morgan Appointments to head up the firm’s HR sector.
Walker left the firm in 2008 and has most recently been working for Volt Consulting’s contractor employee solutions division Pfizer MSP.
North-West recruiter Genesis Associates has acquired analytics recruitment consultancy PeopleGenius.
PeopleGenius now works in Genesis’s Manchester office, with PeopleGenius managing director Daniel Holdsworth taking a senior role in Genesis, focusing on growing the analytics division.
Software firm SAP will acquire cloud-based human capital management solutions firm SuccessFactors.
SAP will hand over around $3.4bn (£2.2bn) as part of the purchase, which was unanimously approved by SuccessFactors’ board.
Outsourced services firm Resource Services Group has appointed Dr Len O’Hagan as chairman of its board.
O’Hagan is also chair of the Belfast Harbour Commissioners, chair of business consultancy OHC Corporate Advisers, chair of Rockingham Motor Circuit and vice president of the Ireland US Council, and has previously held a number of senior business positions.
Recruitment solutions provider cph has signed a recruitment process outsourcing (RPO) contract with internet service provider TalkTalk Group.
The deal came in to effect last month and an embedded cph recruitment team is working towards implementation by January.
Cognisco, a provider of employee and candidate assessments, has taken on Martin Tafft, Julian Oates and Richard Bethune to its management team.
Tafft joins the company, whose clients include Eurostar, Heathrow Express, Network Rail and John Lewis, as strategic alliance manager, Oates as projects and professional services manager and Bethune as content production manager.
