Major British high-street retailers are optimistic about the festive season, with the significant majority of those surveyed forecasting equal or improved sales on 2010, according to new research from management consultancy Hay Group.
Almost half of the retailers questioned are predicting a sales increase and nearly half of these are expecting that to be an increase of over 5%.
Large firms shouldn’t use the tough economic conditions as an excuse to delay paying the recruitment agencies that supply them, according to John Cridland, director general of the Confederation of British Industry (CBI).
Life sciences executive search firm RSA has appointed Michael Narden, Chris Rayner and Fleur Helble to its Swiss team, Justin Smith to its German team, Tristan Barnfather to its UK interims team and John Tonra, who comes on board as vice president of the Americas.
The Chinese operations of Nike and GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) have implemented Lumesse’s TalentLink software for its recruitment across Greater China and Asia as a whole.
A team of 11 China-based recruiters for Nike and 18 for GSK will work with the software in the initial phase of implementation.
The public sector will lead job creation in the UAE in 2012, with technology, healthcare, education and retail and telecom, according recruiters speaking to Emirates247.com.
Venn Group, the professional temporary recruitment specialist, has appointed Danbro — the accountancy and payroll firm for contract workers — onto its umbrella PSL.
Danbro’s business development manager, Mike Rhodes, says: “Venn Group is a fantastic recruitment company to be working with and we are looking forward to developing a long-lasting business relationship with them.”
Lyssa Barber has joined global financial markets search firm Allemby Hunt as managing consultant and head of private wealth management.
Previously at financial services executive search recruiter Lockwood Gibb & Associates, Barber specialises in wealth and investment management recruitment.
HVS Executive Search, a global specialist executive search and advisory firm for the hospitality sector, has appointed Paige Brewer as global head of compensation consulting.
Brewer comes from a background in total rewards management within a number of industries, including consumer goods, publishing/media, financial services and hospitality.
The construction of an Air Products’ renewable energy facility would create between 500 and 700 new engineering and construction jobs, according to a spokesperson for the energy firm.
This week, Air Products announced it had won planning permission from Stockton-on-Tees Borough Council for a renewable energy facility near Billingham, Teesside.
J Robert Scott, a leading global executive search firm, has appointed Douglas Mann as a managing director in its financial services practice.
Based in New York, Mann will focus on the insurance sector within the practice, working closely with Roderick Haire in the firm’s Hong Kong office to grow the practice globally.