The Apprentice star Natasha Scribbins’ success in making the last five in this year’s competition is down to her “results-driven” focus, according to Mark Bull, chief executive of Randstad UK.
Scribbins left the competition this week, just missing out on a final appearance and the chance to go into partnership with business supremo Lord Alan Sugar.
International recruiter Morgan Hunt has extended its partnership with the Dame Kelly Holmes Legacy Trust.
The partnership, which began in April 2010, supports young people not in education, employment or training (NEETs) to find employment through volunteering, work placements and employment opportunities.
Any escalation of the current crisis in the Eurozone could have “severe” consequences for UK unemployment, according to a spokesperson for the Centre for Economics and Business Research (Cebr).
Etihad Airways announced on Saturday that it is to recruit around 100 new employees, mainly cabin crew, from Ireland over the coming months.
This is part of a wider international recruitment drive, with a spokesperson for the company telling Recruiter that the airline has been looking for “2,000 new cabin crew in 2011 from all around the world”.
Whitbread Hotels and Restaurants has joined forces with youth charity The Prince’s Trust, to pilot the ‘Get into Hospitality’ programme in the West Midlands aimed at improving employment prospects of disadvantaged young people.
Twelve unemployed young people aged between 16-25 years have enrolled on the two-week training this week, and will learn all aspects of the hospitality sector.
Australian executive search staffing specialist Jo Fisher Executive Search has opened a new office in New Zealand.
Senior consultant Kathy Kane will manage the new office.
Executive search firm Pedersen & Partners has opened new offices in Bogota, Colombia and Madrid, Spain, taking on a total of six consultants.
Alvaro Arias becomes Pedersen & Partners’ partner in charge of Spain and Latin America. He has over 12 years of executive search experience, specialising in banking, private equity, telecom, media, professional services and industry.
Career social network BraveNewTalent has appointed Master Burnett as director of strategy.
Burnett, who has spent the past 10 years as the managing director of talent strategists Dr John Sullivan and Associates, is the company’s first hire in its new Silicon Valley Office, with the company based in London and another office open in Bangalore.
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Technology firm Babcock Systems & Equipment has chosen engineering and technical recruiter Electus Recruitment Solutions to recruit more than 30 senior and principal level engineering vacancies.
Lee Dougan, senior consultant and account manager at Electus, says: “Over the years we feel that we have become an integral part of the Babcock Systems & Equipment recruitment process.