Executive search firm DS Wolf Group International has appointed Chi-Hang ‘Benny’ Kwong to its IT team.
Kwong joins as IT manager in his new position with the US-based firm, which also provides hiring strategy and market intelligence for the global financial services industry.
Finance and accountancy recruiter Sheridan Maine has appointed Robyn Jacquest as senior consultant, working at the company’s newly-opened Portsmouth office.
Jacquest has four years’ experience working in financial recruitment in the Portsmouth area.
Bournemouth hospitality recruitment agency Towngate Personnel has appointed Tim Goodall and Paul Baldock as consultants.
Goodall will work in the food and beverage sector of the firm focusing on temporary work placements across the UK.
Search engine optimisation and marketing firm theEword has won a contract with UK and Ireland IT recruiter ePeople.
theEword will work to boost the search engine rankings of ePeople.
Better use of women’s skills could be worth £15-23bn to the UK economy each year, claimed Lynne Featherstone, minister for equalities.
Financial recruiter Howarth Morris has launched an HR division jointly headed by new hire Daisy Ali, alongside regional manager Ian Lenehan.
Ali has eight years’ recruitment experience, the last three of which was in HR.
Around 65% of UK professionals are happy or very happy in their current position, compared to 63% globally, according to new research by professional network LinkedIn, with Recruitermagazine lagging behind.
UK and global contentedness levels compare with a figure of 80% for Dutch professionals – the most professionally content – and just 31% of employees in Japan.
UK recruiters work nearly an hour a day more than their US counterparts and gain better results, according to research by recruitment technology firm Bullhorn.
The findings also show there are twice as many recruitment professionals active in the UK as a proportion of overall population than in the US.
Nearly two-thirds of employers in the UAE do not anticipate increasing the size of their workforce in the near future, according to a poll by Emirates247.com, but the website itself admits that its own results clash with other investigations.
The number of young entrepreneurs starting up their own business has increased by nearly a quarter (22%) in the past three years, according to research by information services company Experian.
However, 45% these businesses are wound up within two and a half years, although when a director aged over 26 is also on the board, this rate improves significantly.