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.
International recruitment and executive search firm VMA GroupEurope has appointed Els Brands as a senior consultant in Brussels.
Employment and skills specialists Working Links is to deliver Work Choice, the government’s new programme to help disabled people get into work in five areas across the UK.
More than eight in 10 business leaders are finding today’s economic climate more difficult than in the recession, according to a survey from independent management consultant Berkshire Consultancy.
Hospitality recruiter Quality Link has agreed to use a new online package developed by Flow Hospitality Training to train its workers.
Laurence Power (Recruiter, 1 September) raises important issues concerning the impact of abolishing the Default Retirement Age. However, his gloomy forecast is based on a number of questionable assumptions that do not stand up to scrutiny.
Global HR specialist Frazer Jones, part of the SR Group, has appointed Marcus Cornish to its Interim team as senior consultant.
Cornish joins from Badenoch & Clark, where he spent four years recruiting within the Interim market, the last two years specialising within HR.
A large rise in the amount of money owed to the Association of Professional Staffing Companies (APSCo) was due to invoices for membership fees being sent out later than in the previous year.
Surrey-based recruitment firm Proactive Technical Recruitment has appointed specialist accountants for contractors Danbro as a preferred supplier of accounting and payroll solutions to its contractor-based candidates.
Global executive search and leadership consulting firm Heidrick & Struggles International has appointed John Armstrong partner in its Toronto office in Canada.
Armstrong will work with the firm’s financial services and global technology & services practices, delivering executive search and related advisory services to Canadian businesses.