Hays has won two new public sector contracts.
Hays Social Housing has been appointed by Golden Gates Housing Trust to manage its recruitment in Warrington and to help deliver jobseeking skills to the local community. The firm will support the housing trust in recruiting quality professionals and offering advice to residents seeking employment.
Marketing & communications recruiter 2nd City Resourcing has appointed Helen Poole to head up its product team. She joins from Resource Bank.
Meanwhile Emma Finch has joined as consultant to handle marketing appointments in the service sector, while Amy Lee-Thompson and Jenny Goddard will handle interim business.
Nearly two in three (59%) IT professionals are not loyal to their employer, according to research from The IT Job Board.
ZRG Partners, a US-based global executive search and talent management firm, has acquired Starting Point Companies (SPC).
SPC is a fast-growing advisory firm focused on executive compensation, board governance and director education within community banks.
More than half of the UK recruiters polled by Plimsoll have achieved a ‘strong’ rating, according to the latest industry analyst’s latest report.
The report also reveals:
Multi-sector recruiter Eximius Group is to open an office in Manchester.
The new office will initially specialise in the education, health and social care sectors.
Paul Jones, who joins Eximius Group from Hays, will lead the Manchester operation.
Talent assessment providers SHL and PreVisor are to merge.
The merged entity will be known as SHL, providing more than 15m assessments annually in over 150 countries and more than 30 languages.
Terms of the transaction remain undisclosed. The firm will be headquartered in London, with offices in North America, Europe, Middle East, Africa, Asia and Australia/New Zealand.
Employment services group Renovo has acquired specialist HR recruiter Eden Jones.
Renova says the acquisition is a strategic move to expand Renovo’s overall proposition for clients and provide a new, dedicated HR recruitment division.
Eden Jones will operate under the Renovo Employment Group brand with immediate effect and will continue to operate from headquarters in York.
Just under a quarter (22.8%) of UK workers are unhappy in their current job, according to research from recruitment consultant Badenoch & Clark.
The research also shows 27% would not recommend their employer (27%), while further fifth (21.9%) stated that the dominant reason they went to work was due to routine. One in ten (10.3%) were motivated to work by spiralling debt.
Superdrug is to recruit more than 500 new apprentices onto its Apprenticeship scheme in 2011.