Talent management provider Kenexa has agreed an alliance with Australian recruiter The Brooklyn Group, which expands Kenexa’s presence in the Australian RPO market.
Kenexa says it chose The Brooklyn Group for its expertise in transaction, project and enterprise recruiting services as well as its local leadership.
Six in 10 firms have no “systematic or strategic approach” to recruiting, developing and retaining talent to meet future business needs, according to a joint study.
The Cornhill Partnership, parent company to executive recruitment firms Archer Mathieson, Correlate Search, Euromedica and BIE Interim Executive, has appointed Nigel Guy as non-executive chairman.
Multi-sector recruiter Foresight Recruitment Solutions has appointed Andy Ogier-Smith as IT divisional manager.
Ogier-Smith will set up and lead the firm’s new IT division.
Foresight also operates within the industrial and commercial sectors.
Australia’s Prime Minister Julia Gillard has called for Australian companies to plug the nation’s skills gap with local workers, rather than relying on skilled migrants, reports Australia’s ABC News.
Gillard’s comments directly contradict work done this week to attract Irish and Northern Irish workers to the country.
Middlesex University and public sector union FDA have launched a pilot study that will see students from a variety of backgrounds receive mentoring by senior public sector workers, helping them land top graduate jobs.
Unemployment in Australia has fallen from 5.3% in August, a 10-month high, to 5.2% in September, reports the country’s ABC Newsnetwork.
The number of jobs created in September was double the expected rate, and just over half of these 20,400 new jobs were full-time positions.
Firms in the Asia Pacific (APAC) region are increasingly offering health programmes and other benefits to employees in order to attract and retain key talent, a study by HR consultancy Mercer shows.
The survey found that 81% of APAC employers questioned - of which 87% were multinationals - were concerned about the health of their employees.
Construction firm Bouygues Enterprises France-Europe has signed an agreement with recruitment firms Adecco Group, Domitis Network and Randstad, which pledges to improve safety for their personnel working on Bouygues sites.
Bouygues claims the partnership is the first such deal in the French construction sector.
There has been a major increase in the number of doctors and nurses at either end of their career undertaking contract work since 2009, according to a study by umbrella administration company FPS.