Research by the Taleo Corporation, provider of on-demand talent management solutions, reveals that there is room for improvement in businesses’ use of HR as a strategic tool.
While most IT and HR professionals recognise the value that HR technology can add to a business, this is not reflected by a drive to improve the integration and functionality of HR technology systems.
Punch Taverns has turned to apprenticeships to develop hospitality talent of the future.
Executive search firm Warren Partners has promoted operations director Vicky Lawton to managing director.
Meanwhile, founder Joëlle Warren takes up the role of executive chairman and will be supported by an advisory board of senior business leaders, headed by Judith Nicol.
Tony Constantinides has been appointed sales director of healthcare recruiter The Placement Group.
Constantinides started his own agency, Excel Resources, in 1997 before it was acquired by TMP Worldwide, staying with the firm until recently as director of IT and telecoms recruitment.
The number of employers reporting redundancies rose in July with the Recruitment & Employment Confederation’s (REC) Jobs Barometer falling three points in July following five consecutive months of improvement.
However, the number of employers intending to recruit temporary and permanent staff over the next three months remains stable.
IT, pharma, banking technology and telecoms recruiter Vine Resources has appointed Darren Keith as sourcing consultant.
Keith joins the firm’s pharma division.
Randstad Managed Services has appointed Eunice Clements-Tweedie as director of operations.
Clements-Tweedie will lead a change management programme as well as driving improvements in efficiency, effectiveness and excellence in client programme delivery.
She previously held senior operational positions at Zebra Managed Recruitment Services (now
International recruiter Hays has been re-appointed to the government’s Buying Solutions framework to provide non-permanent staff.
Hays remains one of five suppliers responsible for the recruitment of all non-permanent staff up to board level and directors.
Recruiters are being urged to get up to speed with the Committee of Advertising Practice (CAP) codes of regulations, ahead of the Advertising Standards Authority’s remit for regulating digital marketing extension from March next year.
An increased focus on cost controls has created increased demand for purchasing managers, according to Pat Law, managing director of Hays Procurement.
Law’s comments follow a report from the Office for National Statistics (ONS), which shows that the number of purchasing manager positions occupied in the UK has risen by 121% between 2001 and 2010.