International candidate assessment firm Saville Consulting has launched a portfolio of 15 new online tools designed to improve organisational recruitment, development and talent management.
The new products include three new reports to enhance individual and team development, seven new online aptitude tests and five behavioural screening questionnaires to improve candidate selection.
The Confederation of British Industry (CBI) has reiterated its call for a targeted approach to encourage employers to take on young people.
Fourteen recruitment consultancies and one supplier to the sector have earned place on the 15th annual The Sunday Times 2011 Fast Track league table.
The league table ranks the UK’s 100 private companies with the fastest-growing sales over their last three years.
According to the The Sunday Times, a typical Fast Track 100 company:
Outsourcing and energy services firm MITIE has acquired a majority stake in access and disability consultancy Direct Enquiries Holding.
Direct Enquiries has an annual turnover of £1.4m and the deal will see up to a maximum of £8.3m paid for the company.
A new advertising campaign from jobsite reed.co.uk will ask the public to decide which TV ad they want to see aired.
The jobsite shortlisted six ads after asking 20 ‘up-and-coming’ directors to create a 30-second commercial for the firm.
Multi-sector recruiter Search Consultancy has appointed Julie Calisir as director for its call and contact centre and office services divisions in Scotland.
Calisir joins Search from Rise Group where she was head of recruitment.
In-house recruiters should send all their jobs to aggregators, according to Peter Gold, founder of social media consultancy Hire Strategies.
International executive search firm Pedersen & Partners has established a UK office in London.
With 44 wholly owned offices in 41 countries, Ulrik Rasmussen, partner in charge of Western Europe, will be leading the operations of the new London office.
Agencies or direct employers recruiting for the Australia and New Zealand markets can now access Hays’ annual salary survey via a mobile app for the first time.
IT recruiter Eurobase People will implement Saber’s sales performance management software at its Chelmsford and London offices.
Eurobase People’s operations director Clive Newton says: “Saber will enable us to reinforce our best practice recruitment methods in a visual and fun way, inspiring even better customer performance on behalf of our customers.”