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.
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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.
Management search firm Expion Search & Selection has appointed Gosia Kowenia as client development manager.
Kowenia joins the firm from Quantica, where she was a specialist headhunter in their healthcare sector.
Recruitment software provider Cirrus Nova has agreed a partnership with sales and marketing specialist ClickDimensions.
Cirrus Nova Prism, a cloud-based Microsoft CRM Dynamics 2011-based recruitment program, enables recruiters to track sales and marketing activity from the same location.
The government must remain focused on job creation in a “choppy” recovery, according to employment minister Chris Grayling.
Figures from Office for National Statistics show unemployment rose to 2.49m, while the number of people claiming Jobseeker’s Allowance has also increased by 37,000 to 1.56m. The number of people in employment has increased by 25,000 to 29.27m.
The Criminal Records Bureau has extended its contract with Capita Group to continue to provide its Disclosure Service under a PPP agreement for a further 12 months from the end of March 2012 until March 2013.
Online recruitment agency RecruitmentRevolution.com has completed the successful beta testing of its automated candidate feedback system.
Operations director, Anna Taylor, says: “Back in April we launched our Beta Candidate Feedback service enabling the applicant to get a ‘real-time’ application update, and to date the new service has received nearly 8,000 requests.