Resourcers should use a ‘buddy system’ to better integrate new staff, according to Sarah Langton, recruitment manager at law firm Clifford Chance.
Langton told delegates at Recruiter’s inaugural Smart Resourcing 2010 event at London’s Millennium Mayfair Hotel last week how Clifford Chance uses a ‘buddy system’ to improve induction of new recruits.
International executive search firm Korn/Ferry International has expanded its global real estate reach by hiring William Kistler.
Based in London, Kistler brings more than 30 years of hands on, international real estate experience to Korn/Ferry.
Multi-sector recruiter Barclay Meade, part of the Matchtech Group, has selected communications agency Bray Leino to launch the Barclay Meade brand to the market.
An initiative to get thousands more disabled people into the workplace across the UK, known as the Disability Clearkit, has launched.
EU doctors need more stringent language tests, according to Kate Bleasdale,executive vice chairman of medical staffing specialist Healthcare Locums (HCL).
Interim management provider Impact Executives has won preferred supplier list (PSL) status for Interim Management Services on the National Education Recruitment Advertising & Resourcing Services (NERARS) framework.
This agreement, set to start on 1st January 2011, sees the firm source candidates for senior or strategic level posts for interim assignments and runs for four years.
Global executive search firm Transearch International has made a number of key international appointments.
Outsourcing and recruitment solutions provider Servoca’s trading is “in line with expectations”, according to a trading update.
The update says: “Despite challenging conditions in parts of the public sector recruitment operations, results for the year will be in line with expectations.
Up to 500 new jobs will be created in the Shetland Islands, following an announcement yesterday that French oil giant Total intends to build a gas processing plant on the island.
The contract to build the new plant has been awarded to FTSE 100 oil services company Petrofac. Construction will begin next year.
A competition for an internship on a BP’s North Sea oil has boosted the number of engineering students applying to the energy firm.