Entrepreneur and chairman of recruitment process outsourcer HB Retinue, James Caan, has told a London audience earlier this week that attracting top talent in the current climate is just as hard as it has been for the last 30 years. See the video below for his comments:
James Caan attracting talent
Jark Construction has appointed Dan Chapman as sector manager at its Cambridge office.
Chapman has six years’ recruitment experience, all within the construction sector, most recently at Hays.
IT graduate employer, FDM Group, has appointed Paul Jobbins as its new global services director.
He will be responsible for overseeing FDM’s services, which include PMO, development, application support, infrastructure and testing.
Jobbins was previously at Securicor Information Systems, latterly as executive director in charge of three of the company’s four businesses.
Competition for health and safety professionals is ramping up, according to Stuart Vivian, health & safety recruitment manager at international sustainability staffing specialist Allen & York.
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).