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.
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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.
Global executive search firm Stanton Chase Internationalhas a new board of directors.
James Allen of the Sydney, Australia office, becomes international chairman. Allen has been with Stanton Chase for 14 years and is experienced in many sectors, particularly natural resources.
HR has possibly the greatest opportunity it has ever had to make a major impact on organisations but must act now while the economy is in a stabilising phase or risk losing ground to competitors when a true recovery gets underway.
A skills shortage is blighting the renewable energy sector, according to David Spencer-Percival, chief executive at Spencer Ogden.
Sean Thomas has been appointed interim HR director at STA Travel.
Thomas moves from his role as head of HR at Nandos. He is also the former UK head of HR at Habitat.
Paul Davies is to return to business and IT solutions firm Parity as chief executive, according to an interim management statement.