Employment screening solutions provider HireRight has announced that Powerchex and Kroll Background Worldwide have come together under the HireRight brand.
The move is a result of last year’s acquisition of both entities by HireRight and HireRight’s parent company, Altegrity.
Powerchex changes its name to HireRight Powerchex and Kroll Background Worldwide becomes HireRight.
IT recruiter Cititec has appointed Marguerite Norval as contracts team leader.
Norval joins from Bank of America Merrill Lynch.
Global bank HSBC has chosen recruitment outsourcing provider Resource Solutions as its RPO provider.
Resource Solutions will provide RPO solutions for permanent, temporary and contract recruitment for HSBC Global Businesses.
The hospitality sector has seen a near two-fold rise in new jobs over the past two years, according to a new report from hospitality job board Caterer.com and sector skills council People 1st.
Figures reveal 26,550 jobs created in Q2 2009, rising to 45,000 in the same period of 2011, while applicant numbers have risen from 640,000 to 800,000 in the past year.
US executive search firm The Prout Group has taken on Tony Brown as senior vice president.
Brown will be based in New York, acting as managing partner of the firm’s New York office.
The Scottish job market grew for the ninth month in a row, albeit at a slower rate than previous months, but still outperformed the UK as a whole for the sixth month in a row.
The Co-operative Banking Group has appointed Benjamin Gledhill as resourcing adviser.
Based in Manchester, Gledhill is part of central functions at the Co-operative Banking Group.
Education recruitment specialist ITN Mark has appointed Su Kinney as senior operations manager for the North-West region.
Kinney has 11 years’ experience in education recruitment.
ITN also welcomes Adi Brown as operations manager for the Leeds branch.
