IT recruiter Ashton Consulting has appointed Zoe Drew as contract recruitment consultant specialising in virtualisation, cloud computing and storage contracts.
Katrina Dorney joins as permanent recruitment consultant for virtual market of technical architecture.
Global Sage, a global executive search firm specialising in financial services, has appointed Andrew Miller as director of Asia.
Miller will head business development for the firm’s intelligence and research group. With more 15 years’ experience in the financial services sector, Miller previously served as managing director in Asia for both Linedata Services and Xinhua Finance.
As unemployment rises to 2.5m, the UK is “not out of the woods yet”, according to Melanie Whitehall, director at Matchstick Recruitment.
Charles Russam, chairman of the winner of the inaugural Best Interim Recruitment Agency, Russam GMS, believed his firm’s candidate care set it apart from its competitors.
Social recruitment site BraveNewTalent.com has acquired specialist careers advice video site HereComesTheBoss.com.
More than half of employers (51%) are concerned they will not be able to fill jobs requiring the right graduate level or higher skills in the coming years, according to a poll from the Confederation of British Industry and qualifications awarding body EDI.
Financial recruiter firm Goodman Masson has promoted Chris Porges to director of its temporary and contract business.
Porges joined Goodman Masson as divisional director last October to build the temp and contract business across the commerce and financial services markets.
Liberal Democrat Edward Davey MP has been appointed as minister with responsibility for recruitment industry regulations within the Department for Business (BIS).
Following Recruiter’s story on the skills concerns of employers (recruiter.co.uk, ’More than half employers reveal graduate skills concerns’, 17 May), the report from the CBI shows both optimism and fear: optimism in that the recession will be hopefully drawing to a close and companies are already considering hiring; fear in that new recruits will be lacking in the required skills.
