Talent management solutions provider SumTotal Systems has acquired human capital management software solutions provider Softscape.
SumTotal now provides talent management solutions to more than 1,800 customers and 25m users worldwide, including 43% of the Fortune 500 companies.
Don’t knock bankers for seeking rewards for little work, says John Holden, author newly-published A Cushy Number, in which Holden sets out to discover the ideal career for those who would join the idle rich – or even the idle comfortably well-off.
Global financial and professional services executive search firm Kinsey Allen International has appointed Raffaella Boscolo as a consultant.
Boscolo spent 10 years working as an investment banker within the structured credit markets before joining Kinsey Allen International, where she will be responsible for the Asset Backed Securities and Credit Solutions business.
Multi-sector recruiter Barclay Meade, part of the Matchtech Group, has appointed ex-England rugby international Jon Sleightholme as head of its new sport and leisure division.
Sleightholme, who has won 12 successive caps for the England team, will focus on placing candidates into executive sports roles. He previously launched recruitment and career transition business Sport2Business.
Recruitment departments should do more to inform jobseekers about their pension provision, according the National Association of Pension Funds (NAPF).
Most European firms are facing difficulties in attracting and motivating the critical-skill talent needed to help them rebound from recession, according to research from global professional services company Towers Watson.
Legal recruiter Tailored Solutions has appointed Elizabeth Williams as a consultant.
William joins from legal recruiter JM Legal Recruitment in London and will work between Tailored Solutions’ Cardiff and Bristol offices developing the firm’s private practice division.
Randstad’s tender offer for all issued and outstanding shares of Japanese HR services firm FujiStaff has been successfully completed, the Dutch recruitment giant has announced.
The Apprentice is the most ‘most inspirational’ show on the box for jobseekers, according to www.HireScores.com.
The top 10 programmes were:
1. The Apprentice – 17%
2. Masterchef– 15%
3. Ugly Betty – 13%
4. The X Factor – 12%
Almost half of workers in the public sector say industrial action is necessary to protect public sector jobs, according to the Employee Outlook survey from the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development’s (CIPD).