Competition for health and safety professionals is ramping up, according to Stuart Vivian, health & safety recruitment manager at international sustainability staffing specialist Allen & York.
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IT recruiter InterQuest Group has acquired technology staffing business Contract Connections (CCL).
The acquisition is for a total consideration of up to £4.6m and is expected to be earnings enhancing in the first full year of ownership.
The firm has a managed services division, which is an area of the recruitment market identified by InterQuest as high growth.
The board of public sector recruiter Pinnacle Group is “exploring opportunities” to re-admit the company to AIM as a shell company.
More than eight in 10 (81%) of women feel that bias in the appointment process has a major impact on female representation.
And almost two-thirds (64%) of women do not support legal quotas, according to research conducted by Inspire, the female executive board network that is supported by Harvey Nash, a global professional recruitment consultancy and IT outsourcing service provider.
Recruiting experienced hires via social media is more challenging than tapping into the graduate talent pool, according to Quezia Soares, recruitment marketing manager at management and IT consultancy Accenture UK.
This is because the experienced audience is “fragmented and dispersed”, she told the audience at the Social Recruiting Conference 2011 in London this morning [30 June].
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.