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Specialist communications recruiter VMA Group has appointed Victoria Fawcett as a consultant in its public affairs practice.
Fawcett has previously worked in public affairs and policy at Westminster at The Enterprise Forum and Conservative Central Office.
Most IT professionals (64%) think the IT sector would benefit from a better gender balance, according to research from IT jobs site CWJobs.co.uk.
Global life sciences executive search and interim management specialist RSA has appointed Zaki Sellam joins as practice leader in Switzerland.
RSA Switzerland has also appointed Michelle Bosshard as principal consultant. She will focus on building strategic partnerships with companies primarily within the consumer and animal healthcare sectors.
Salaries for permanent IT roles have risen by 2%, according to new research from IT recruitment specialist CV Screen.
The study, which benchmarked 50 different IT roles and monitored over 7,000 advertised positions in the UK during Q1 2010, found that the average salary for an IT professional is now £36,818.
More than eight in ten (82%) of HR professionals now use social networking as part of their attraction strategy, but require more time and resources to dedicate to it, according to research by talent management specialist Ochre House.
Reducing stress in the workplace is not rocket science, and recruiters should take a number of simple steps to reduce the risks, recruiters have heard.
Speaking at a Recruitment Society meeting in London last night, Allison Grant, a partner at law firm Davies Arnold Copper suggested that recruiters adopt the following approach:
Those iPhone users who don’t have Twitter accounts can make use of the Tweetjobs service via a free app, which also takes advantage of the phone’s location awareness functionality such as GPS or GPRS. It has been developed by Nik Burns, a former recruiter who developed an app to help recruiters manage candidates and clients last year.
MediaLink, a New York-based strategic advisory and business development firm, has launched an executive search practice.
Christopher Nutile heads up the practice as director of executive search and brings more than 15 years of staffing and global HR experience to MediaLink.
Overall UK employment levels are set to increase, according to the latest CIPD/KPMG quarterly survey.