The global CEO of Grafton Employment Group is banking on a new sales and marketing strategy to spearhead its international expansion.
Jason Kennedy told Recruiter that the new strategy was being led by a Business Innovation Team (the Big team). Launched in the autumn, the team is comprised of nine senior staff.
Three out of four of London’s temporary workers say they have seen levels of temporary workers increase or remain constant in the companies that they had worked for.
Built environment recruiter AndersElite has launched a London-based IT solutions team.
The team will cater for IT recruitment services including permanent and contract placement, as well as managed staffing programs and recruitment process outsourcing services and will be led by director Scott Siwicki along with divisional manager, Simon Shobrook.
International teaching recruiter ANZUK Teachers has opened its third office in the UK in Chichester, Sussex.
The firm places teachers in schools in England, Australia and New Zealand.
IT, accountancy, hospitality, leisure and professional services recruiter the Kellan Group has raised £1.35m in a move to fund expansion plans.
The group has issued 16.98m new shares together with loan notes that are repayable in 2015.
The group says trading improved in H2 2010 after reporting a loss at EBITA level of £419,000 during H1 2010.
JobMate has launched a free Wordpress plug-in application, which enables recruiters and employers to use JobMate to display jobs directly on their websites using Wordpress.
JobMate provides software that enables recruiters to post jobs onto their own websites and that of other job boards simultaneously.
Competition is hotting up again post-recession for skilled property industry professionals, according to Sally Chacatte, group human resources director for global property business Knight Frank.
And as the competition for talent rises, some property businesses are “building war chests for bonuses”, Chacatte told Recruiter.
BAE Systems is to take on 290 apprentices in its UK business this year, the firm has announced.
Apprentices will be given the opportunity to work on complex and large-scale engineering programmes in the UK, including the Astute attack submarine, the Typhoon aircraft programme and the Type 45 anti-aircraft destroyer.
Recruitment software provider Voyager has integrated with iProfile.
iProfile aims to help identify candidates within databases, by providing up-to-date information and availability of candidates.
iProfile will also offer Voyager’s customers a free ROI check.
The private sector is set to continue to generate new jobs, according to the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) and KPMG’s latest Labour Market Outlook survey.