Recruitment software provider Bullhorn has launched a BlackBerry synchronisation tool.
The integration allows clients to access emails, calendars and client and candidate data as well as generating, sourcing and filling job orders, or making placements at any time and from any place.
Employers need help in providing quality jobs, a report published by The Work Foundation shows.
The report shows that nearly half of surveyed firms (41%) saw a role for recruiters to help with the ‘good jobs’ agenda and nearly all respondents considered job quality vital to maintaining customer satisfaction.
Norway’s Posten (Post Office) has chosen business talent management solutions provider StepStone e-recruitment to underpin, manage and enable its professional recruitment process.
Posten, which employs around 25,000 people, will implement StepStone’s solution to attract and filter qualified candidates to reduce its HR department’s administrative workload.
Interim managers working in banks have seen their day rates rise by half since the start of the credit crunch, according to interim management solutions provider Interim Partners.
Financial services companies are engaged in a ‘war for talent’ which has driven pay for interim managers who specialise in risk and compliance work 50% higher over the last two years.
Not-for-profit recruiter Prospectus has signed up to Changing Faces’ Face Equality at Work membership scheme, which aims to raise awareness, challenge perceptions and target discrimination against people with facial disfigurements in the workplace.
The Gangmasters Licensing Authority (GLA) has launched a second consultation on a protocol between the GLA, leading supermarkets and suppliers to counter labour exploitation in the UK.
The Law Society, which represents solicitors in England and Wales, has welcomed the Migration Advisory Committee’s (MAC)’s plans submitted to the government last week on the points-based system (PBS), which regulates migrant worker numbers entering Britain.
The number of London firms seeking talent from abroad has declined, according to a survey from CBI/KPMG.
The survey shows that just 3% said hiring from abroad was rising, compared with 15% a year ago, while 26% said it was stable, compared with 42% in 2008.
Broadcast security firm Octavian Security is seeking motorhome owners to pitch up on outside broadcast and film sets and look after the sites.
Tony Mellor, commercial director of Octavian, says: “This is a superb opportunity and will offer something a bit different to the usual pitches at the seaside or country parks.
Thinktank Reform says that 1m public sector jobs will need to be shed, according to its latest report.
The report says that whoever wins the next election will need to cut one in six public sector jobs, including doctors, nurses, police and teachers.