The increase in the National Miniumum Wage (NMW) could hit the creation of jobs for young people, according to Charles Cotton, performance and reward adviser at the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD).
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The prime minister has announced that to fill the UK’s skills gap the government is to focus on strengthening links between the Points Based System and training UK workers.
International recruiter Harvey Nash Executive Search has launched an oil & gas division.
This division will be led by Sherree Young. Young has nine years’ experience helping organisations build leadership teams with candidates from within and outside the sector.
Anglo-Italian helicopter company AgustaWestland has chosen Wynnwith Technical Services to provide technical staff and engineers for depth maintenance activities at Wattisham Airfield, the British Army’s main Apache AH Mk1 operating base and Depth Support Unit (DSU).
The Recruitment Solutions Group (RSG) has won key new clients at last week’s Business North West Show at Manchester Central.
According to Steve Smithson, director at HR Recruitment Solutions, many directors and business owners were extremely positive about future business and the message from the event was “to go out there and win new business”.
PR & Comms specialist recruiter VMA has appointed Crystal Walter to head its Corporate Communications Practice.
US executive search firm Battalia Winston Amrop has acquired the executive search business of Centennial Advisory Group, a Stamford, Connecticut-based executive search firm specialising in the investment management industry and hedge funds.
Frank Carr, founder of Centennial, has joined Battalia Winston as a partner in the firm’s financial services practice.
North-West based Scantec Personnel, a technical, engineering, scientific and commercial recruiter, is reorganising its management team in anticipation of an upturn in trading in 2010.
Technical and engineering recruiter NES Group has issued a warning to fellow recruiters over the increasing dangers posed by online content theft after its own website was targeted.
The process works by firms copying and pasting information from other websites when creating their own web pages without permission.