Large scale redundancies are not anticipated at Gateshead Council despite budget cuts, according to the council’s director of corporate services Jeff Dean.
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Financial recruiter Robert Walters has managed to keep a tight rein on costs but has seen profits fall in its preliminary results for the year ended 31 December 2009.
The firm’s results reveal:
Global executive search firm The Caldwell Partners International has appointed Kristin Hebert as partner in its San Francisco office to lead the company’s recruiting practice for senior legal talent.
The European Union (EU) is shifting its emphasis from knowledge to competency-based assessment when recruiting officials.
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.