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Multi-sector recruiter gap personnel has appointed Rob Eyes as a manager in its driving division.

Eyes, based in gap personnel’s Liverpool office, will be charged with expanding the firm’s portfolio that currently includes distribution companies in Europe and the UK.

Creative, media and digital recruitment specialist MacPeople has appointed Chris Ward as a consultant.

Ward has joined the firm’s London office for a month, before he heads out to work in MacPeople’s Sydney office permanently.

Meanwhile, Will O’Neill has joined as a permanent consultant.

More than one in three of SMEs use social media on a daily basis to promote their businesses, according to research from Daryl Willcox Publishing.

The research shows that 54% use social media – and 35% of these said they posted updates

every day to platforms such as LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter.

Graduate careers website Targetjobs.co.uk has agreed an alliance with student discount portal StudentBeans.com.

Specialist HR search and selection consultancy has made four appointments in its London office.

Amanda Johnston joins the company as senior consultant from BIE Interim Executive and Lucy Burrows is promoted to associate consultant in the interim team.

Former associate director at Morgan Hunt, Simon Jennings, has launched bespoke recruitment-to-recruitment and executive headhunter Direct Approach Resourcing.

The firm is based in Leeds and will concentrate on vacancies across North and Midlands.    

Pharmaceutical and healthcare company GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) is continuing to invest in recruitment despite economic uncertainty, says Claire Thomas, senior vice president, human resources, GSK.

With the Agency Workers Regulations (AWR) coming into force in just over a year’s time, almost two in three HR professionals are unaware of the new regulations, according to research from Adecco.

The research shows that 61% don’t realise that the AWR will come into force in just twelve months time and 80% said they have ‘no idea’ what the consequences of non-compliance are.

Driver Agency INNOV8 Recruitment has appointed Fran Higgs as chief executive, ahead of planned expansion. 
 
Meanwhile, Karen Taylor has been appointed head of the firm’s Out Of Hours 24 Hour Response division.

Founder Adrien Bray says in the next five years the firm plans to open 10 recruitment centres throughout the UK and to build turnover to around £30m.

Law firms Pinsent Masons, Eversheds and Allen & Overy have signed up social recruiting platform Brave New Talent’s Talent Words system.

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