HR recruiter Anne Corder Recruitment (ACR) has appointed Rosie Hooton as recruitment partner.
Recruitment administrator Marie Rushton-Harrison also joins the firm’s Peterborough Park Road office.
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Telecoms, engineering, defence, renewable and energy staffing specialist Everyone Everywhere (e1ew) has appointed Mark Viagas as recruitment manager.
Viagas will recruit for the defence market.
Government plans for a “national loans guarantee scheme” to help small businesses could prove to be of little help to smaller recruiters, according to Sean O’Donoghue, founder/UK group managing director, the Independent Recruiting Group (IRG).
US President Barack Obama has seen his $447bn (£287bn) jobs bill defeated 50 votes to 49 in the US Senate, falling well short of the 60 votes needed to advance the measures.
BBC News reports that not a single Republican voted in favour of the bill, objecting to the plans to spend money to stimulate the economy and create new taxes on millionaires.
Governance services firm Glass Lewis has announced its arrival in Limerick, where it will be setting up a new office.
Canadian executive search firm McCracken Partners has joined Penryhn International.
Penryhn is a network of independent executive search firms with member firms in 22 countries worldwide, including the UK and the US.
Prime Minister John Key has announced new policies that would incentivise employers to take on young, inexperienced workers by allowing a low minimum wage and reducing the strength of the unions, reports nzherald.co.nz
Ollie Burns has joined financial search agency Allemby Hunt as head of banking.
Burns takes on responsibility for a team of six at the firm’s London office.
The East African Community (EAC) has approved the use of a quota system for recruitment to its own organs and institutions, reports ippmedia.com.
Previously, criticism has been levelled at the way in which Kenyan and Ugandan staff have dominated such bodies, leaving the other EAC member states – Burundi, Rwanada and Tanzania – poorly represented.
Transport and logistics recruiter Driver Hire has made two appointments to its group services team.
Lee Devenish arrives as the new South-East area development manager, with 15 years’ industry experience, including time spent running his own agency.