Insurance distributor Kwik-Fit Financial Services will recruit 40 new sales consultants between now and January.
New hires will enter the firm’s car and home insurance divisions.
The new recruits will be based at the company’s Uddingston headquarters.
Financial, executive and corporate governance recruiter Alexander Daniels has recently appointed two new senior consultants, Louisa Smyth and Kerry Sheerman.
Smyth was previously assistant business manager at the Birmingham office of Reed Finance, where she worked for six years.
Engineering and construction recruiter TechConsult UK has appointed Dawn Smith as a senior recruitment consultant.
Specialising in energy, Smith will look to expand the company’s operations in the sector.
Publisher GTI Media - the owner of jobs board TARGETjobs.co.uk - has announced that it will publish a career services guide for the London School of Economics (LSE).
LSE will join over 20 UK universities with guides published by the firm when the first edition is published in autumn 2012.
The Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games has appointed Jan Scott as head of human resources.
She will lead the organisation’s recruitment and employee relations strategy, including the drive to recruit people into 1,044 roles, to be undertaken with Search Consultancy as exclusive recruitment partner.
Scott also sits on the organising committee for the games.
The healthcare arm of the Recruitment & Employment Confederation (REC) has raised concern over the removal of healthcare professionals from frontline duties due to present financial pressures.
Delivering his Autumn Statement, Chancellor George Osborne has suggested that while unemployment is a jobs problem, it is also down to the fact that the UK is experiencing a lack of skills.
While there has been a month-on-month decrease of 12% in the number of new professional jobs in Ireland, there are 24% more than the same point last year, according to Morgan McKinley’s Irish Employment Monitor.
However, there was also a 1% decline in the number of professionals seeking opportunities.
Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai has criticised indigenisation laws, saying they will not solve the country’s unemployment crisis, reports the Zimbabwe Metro.
Home improvements and DIY retailer Lowe’s has announced plans for a new customer support centre in Albuquerque, New Mexico, creating 600 jobs.
The centre should be operational early next year, and the full 600 job roles should be filled by the end of 2013, according to a statement from the company.