Radia Holdings’ staffing and recruiting companies are to unify under one brand Advantage Resourcing.
The firm, which includes London-based financial recruiter FSS, is now divided into four specialised business groups: Advantage xPO, Advantage Technical Resourcing, Advantage Professional and Advantage Staffing:
International executive search firm CTPartners has appointed two partners to the industrial and commercial practice in its London office.
Toby Lapage-Norris joins from energy company BG Group, where he was group head of resourcing and before that he spent 14 years at Whitehead Mann (now Korn/Ferry Whitehead Mann) where he was managing partner for the industrial practice.
Dean Shoesmith, executive head of HR at the London Boroughs of Sutton and Merton, will take over as president of the Public Sector People Managers’ Association (PPMA) from today (Monday, 22 March).
A draft report outlining key priorities to support the development of Britain’s professional and business services industries has been published by the government.
Among the draft recommendations are plans for government to:
· lead development of a new framework of standards for a green economy;
Growth in Morson’s aerospace and defence business has helped the firm increase revenue for the year ended 31 December 2009.
Talent acquisition and management solutions provider StepStone has agreed to sell its StepStone Solutions talent management software division to private equity investor HgCapital for €110m (£99.1m).
The transaction is expected to be completed by the end of April, subject to usual closing conditions.
The retail sector faces a tough employment market as strong firms cut costs and the weak go out of business, according to Maureen Hinton, lead analyst at retail analyst Verdict Research.
In the past week, restructuring advisory firm Begbies Traynor predicted that up to 15 retailers would go bust between now and February.
A dearth of skilled IT professionals, along with complacency around the need to train workers for recovery, could hit financial firms emerging from the recession, according to research from IT recruiter Parity.
Firms should be wary over reining in Christmas celebrations, despite the difficult economic climate, according to the British Association of Communicators in Business (CiB) – soon to become the Institute of Internal Communication.
