Employers are failing to effectively exploit social networking to hire new recruits, according to research from headhunter Executives Online.
The research shows that in a survey of 1,264 senior executives, only 4% of them have actually hired someone via a social networking site.
Financial recruiter Adele Carr Financial Recruitment has opened a new office in Liverpool.
The office will be led by Simon Bilson.
Managing director Adele Carr says: “Despite all the doom and gloom around in the economy last year, we are excited to be pushing forward with the next stage of our business plan.”
Interim management provider Interim Partners has promoted Simon Gough, head of their fmcg (fast moving consumer goods) team to its board of directors.
Less than half of hospitality firms have a flexible working policy in place, according to research by Caterer.com.
The research shows that just 47% of companies polled has a formal policy in place, while 24% operated with an informal policy and 26% had none at all.
The Gangmasters Licensing Authority (GLA) has agreed a protocol with major UK retailers and their suppliers to help fight worker exploitation.
The agreement follows extensive talks and consultation with retailers and the supply chain over the last two years and sets out how the GLA will work with the industry to make sure proper standards are in place.
Good quality leaders are hard to come by, according to Simone Hemingway, HR director at diagnostic imaging services provider Alliance Medical.
Hemingway’s comments came at a panel discussion of networking group the London HR Connection at the London School of Economics yesterday.
The position of employees and trade creditors is still unclear as administrators reveal that Albany Holdings owed £300,000.
Workforce management firm Albany’s holding company, Albany Holdings, had external liabilities to trade creditors and employees of £300,000 when it went into administration in February, according to the company’s administrators.
Oil & Gas job board OilCareers.com has appointed Amber Glass as sales manager for its new office in Houston.
Glass, who has worked in both business development and recruitment roles across local and national recruitment firms as well as for oil, gas and chemical service companies will head up the US office.
Labour markets are stabilising among G7 countries, according to a report from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).
A La Carte Search and Selection has launched a freelance life sciences researchers division.
The firm says it has already had expressions of interest from 16 freelance life sciences researchers and from five life sciences search firms.
The service is initially for the UK but will be rolled out globally.