Technology staffing specialist Highams Systems Services Group has seen an “encouraging and sustained” increase in revenue, according to its preliminary results for the year ended 31 March 2011.
The results reveal:
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The government has launched a new Common Best Practice Code for High-Quality Internships in conjunction with the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) and the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW).
The number of employers with short-term plans to increase permanent headcount over the next quarter has fallen, according to the latest Recruitment & Employment Confederation’s latest JobsOutlook.
The report reveals 67% of employers have short-term plans to increase their permanent workforce over the next three months, compared to 74% last month.
Firms in India are paying headhunters 30% more for female hires than they would for men, reports Indian news website The Economic Times.
Microsoft, Alcatel-Lucent, Genpact, IBM, Schneider Electric, Cadbury-Kraft Foods are among the firms offering this incentive.
Specialist communications recruiter VMA Group has appointed Katrina Andrews to manage its new Asia-Pacific office headquartered in Hong Kong.
Headhunters Carrington Fox, Fletcher Flemming and Webber Chase will merge to form financial and legal headhunter The Webber Fox Group, and will operate out of offices in London, New York and Hong Kong.
The Webber Fox Group will operate under four different brands, listed below:
Recruiters shouldn’t get hung up on the number of Twitter followers they have, as it is not a good measure of recruitment success.
So says Katharine Robinson, sourcing manager at Capgemini.
Genius Consultancy, the Bristol-based recruitment communications and employer branding specialist, has won the contract to help NYSE Technologies to attract IT staff to its Belfast offices.
NYSE Technologies, the technology division of NYSE Euronext (an S&P 500 index business), is looking to recruit a large number of staff in Belfast.
Job site Careers24 has appointed recruitment software provider HotLizard as its job board software partner.
Together the firms have launched a new version of www.careers24.com. Careers24 is recruitment site that targets recruiters and candidates based in South Africa.
Executive search and HR consultancy SpenglerFox has been appointed a global alliance partner of Saville Consulting’s and is using the firm’s assessment products to support their innovative Human Capital Solutions business worldwide.