Automotive recruitment specialist HCP International has appointed Minal Patel, Linda Taylor and Harriet Constable.
Patel becomes the firm’s administration manager, having worked in the recruitment industry for nearly 10 years.
Taylor will work alongside Patel as an administrator, while Constable becomes marketing and PR executive
Housing, care and support provider Radian Group has chosen Jobtrain Solutions to provide an e-recruitment system, replacing the current paper-based process.
Giles Heckstall-Smith, commercial director at Jobtrain, says: “Already working with organisations including Sheffield Homes, Southern Housing and The Crown Estate has given us plenty of experience in this sector.”
Social network Facebook will open a New York engineering office, the company’s first outside of the West Coast, early next year and is accepting applications for new roles immediately.
The company’s careers website shows 15 available roles in New York, including two interns and a recruiting sourcer.
Staffing company Empresaria has acquired a further 35% of its Indonesian subsidiary, recruiter PT Monroe Consulting Group (MCI), taking its stake in the company to 90%
The deal will have a maximum value of IDR 6.9bn (£0.5m).
MCI operates across South-East Asia with offices in Indonesia, Singapore, the Philippines and Thailand.
The government must enforce the rules on intra company transfers within the IT sector, according to Jeff Brooks, chair of REC (Recruitment & Employment Confederation) Technology.
New criteria were agreed last year, including a £40,000 salary threshold to ensure that intra company transfers (ICTs) were not simply used as a way of bringing in relatively junior staff.
Advertising and creative professionals can broadly expect better salaries in Sydney than in Melbourne, according to Firebrand Talent Search’s esalarysurvey.
Creative directors in Sydney, for example, can demand $135,250 (median), while in Melbourne the median salary is $105,000.
The Aspire Global Network of recruitment firms, comprising six specialist recruitment brands: pfj, The Graduate Recruitment Company, rpcushing, Persicope, ICUR and Aspire Global Network Asia has opened a new office in Singapore, the headquarters for its Asian operations.
Following seven years working for pfj in London, Emma Osborne heads the new office.
Post-Gaddafi Libya is on the mend, albeit presenting differing opportunities to migrant workers and recruiters in the country.
Permanent vacancies in the property sector were down by 0.3% month-on-month and contractor openings by 0.8%, as pay on both sides went up marginally, according to property recruiter Judd Farris.
The gap between male and female unemployment stands at 1.5 percentage points as unemployment of both males and females increased by similar levels in 2011, but for different reasons according to the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD).