Online sales jobs board Sales Pro Recruitment has been launched.
The jobs board allows sales professionals to upload a video profile up to 90 seconds long demonstrating their presentation skills.
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IT recruiter Ashton Consulting has appointed Alex Richards as a consultant.
Richards specialises in senior sales and executive fields, primarily in developing cloud computing and managed services markets.
Misconceptions of ex-military professionals remain among employers, according to the managing director at Forces Recruitment. This follows an employer’s claim that he would rather recruit ex-drug dealers, convicts and child molesters than ex-military candidates.
UK firms paid bills more than two and a half days quicker in February, on the same month last year, according to the Late Payment Index from information services company Experian.
The index shows that UK businesses on average paid their bills 20.75 days after agreed payment terms, up 11.6% on February 2009.
Siemens, a provider of wind turbines and offshore grid connections to the UK, has announced that it is to invest in excess of £80m to develop an offshore wind turbine production facility in the UK, creating 700 new local jobs.
Green executive recruiter Climate Human Capital has opened for business with plans to expand into seven new locations including China, according to chief executive Mike Brennan.
The firm, which formally launched today, will target carbon markets, environmental sciences, research and advisory, financial services renewable energy generation and policy.
IT security software firm Symantec has launched its first graduate recruitment and internship programme for the Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) region.
Private equity recruitment specialist Directorbank has appointed Dorothea Kronenberghs as European account director to strengthen its presence in Germany.
Technical recruiter Matchtech Group has announced increased revenues in its preliminary results for the year ended 31 July 2009.
Revenue was up 4% to £269.6m (2008: £258.8m), while net fee income (NFI) dropped 9% to £30.3m (2008: £33.2m), with H1 up 8% and H2 down 23%.
Operating profit dropped to £11.6m from £13.8m in 2008 and net debt was cut to £1.2m (2008: £3.1m).
Tesco is launching a new recruitment scheme to put its staff’s unemployed family and friends in temporary Christmas jobs.
The retailer is creating 6,000 temporary jobs through the scheme, according to a statement released today (12 October). Almost 20% of Tesco employees have a friend or family member who has been made unemployed in the last 12 months.