The Recruitment & Employment Confederation’s (REC) new qualifications launched today are “a major step forward”, according to Baroness Prosser.
Speaking at the launch of the Certificate in Recruitment Practice and the Diploma in Recruitment Practice in London today, the Labour Peer, who is chair of the REC’s Youth Employment Taskforce, welcomed the new qualifications.
The number of new permanent placements rose at its weakest rate for 22 months in June, according to the latest ‘Report on Jobs’ from the Recruitment & Employment Confederation (REC).
Multi-sector recruiter Quantum Recruitment has appointed Lisa Mabey and Suzie Zengarini as account managers.
Mabey has 12 years’ HR and recruitment experience and will be looking after office clients, while Zengarini has 11 years’ experience in the hospitality sector, having worked with several hotel groups in the local area. She will recruit for hospitality roles.
Employers in the US need to match skills with strategic objectives of the business, according to Jeffrey A Joerres, chairman and chief executive of international recruitment giant ManpowerGroup.
Latest data from the US Bureau of Labor Statistics shows in June the US’s unemployment rate jobless rate had risen by just 0.1% from 9.1% in May.
More than two thirds (71%) of outsourcers and facilities management suppliers think the government needs to do more to help smaller businesses win more of its work, according to a survey by provider of interim managers to the private sector Interim Partners.
In-house IT talent acquisition teams and not recruitment agencies are now the ‘gate keepers’ to jobs, according to Martin Dangerfield, director of mckinley|resourceand interim talent acquisition manager of EMEA sales at Symantec.
Technology recruiter The MRJ Group has appointed Natalie Bernstein as business services manager.
Meanwhile, Charlie Conroy, Matthew Stott and Munir Khan all join as trainee recruitment consultants.
US-based executive search and professional services firm hrQ, specialising in human resources, has appointed Cynthia Herr as vice president and managing director of the firm’s San Francisco Bay Area office.
Herr joins hrQ from Lee Hecht Harrison, a talent solutions company, where she was the vice president of business development since 2008.
Business-to-business social media strategy practice Carve Consulting has entered into partnership with employment marketing agency ThirtyThree.
The firms will combine to offer a fully integrated approach to internal and external employee marketing and communications across digital and social media platforms.
Commercial and industrial staffing specialist Staffline Group has acquired certain assets and commercial relationships from Arnashade Recruitment following the firm’s administration earlier this month.
Arnashade, based in Luton, Bedfordshire, specialises in industrial recruitment servicing a number of corporate customers in the Hertfordshire and Bedfordshire area.