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The Recruitment & Employment Confederation (REC) has unveiled plans for a major revamping of its educational qualifications.

The ancient Eastern tradition of Yoga, that may have originated as long as 5,500 years ago, might not be the first place for recruiters to gain that all important edge and boost their performance at work.

Legal recruiter Chadwick Nott has appointed Alliya Wang as a consultant.

Wang has three years’ legal recruitment experience having worked in Beijing, China for a global recruiter and will focus on recruiting lawyers for law firm clients across the region, primarily in China, Hong Kong and Singapore.

I read Kevin Blair’s article, ’Retain your reputation’ (Recruiter, 31 March), with interest and initially thought it would be another tainted view on the subject of retainers.

Commercial recruiter Tate opened a new office in Cambridge.

This brings Tate’s office network to 28.

Recruitment advertising and employer communications agency Genius Consultancy has launched.

The firm has been set up by Janice Rae, Peter Gibbons and John Langford, former directors of HR strategy and communications organisations RAA Sprague Gibbons and TCS Group.

HR needs to make developing talent more of a priority, according to the Henley Business School.

Data from Henley Business School shows coaching remains high on the list of development priorities for 2010. However, while 61% of respondents claim developing a coaching culture was one of their Top 5 priorities, just 9% made it their first or second priority.

The senior management team of multi-sector recruiter Huntress has agreed a buy-out of the Nomura Private Equity holding in the company.
 
Under the transaction, Philip Marks, managing director of Hamilton Blake, and Di Bradbury, managing director of Huntress Commercial, join Huntress’ main board.  

Appearance is as important as ever when going for a job interview, according to a survey from global recruiting specialist Hays.

Almost a third of men and women spend between one and two hours getting ready for a job interview, longer than they spend getting ready for a night out. More than a third of respondents said this was due to the added competition for jobs in the downturn.

Two thirds of IT directors anticipate workloads rising in 2010, according to research from technology staffing specialist ReThink Recruitment.

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