While the UK has a serious youth unemployment problem, the current situation is not worse than ever before, according to a Work Audit report on official labour market statistics from the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD).
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Industrial, commercial, education and driving staffing specialist First4Staff has appointed Lisa Morris as a specialist consultant.
Morris is responsible for sourcing Key Stage 1 and 2 teachers for schools in Wolverhampton and Walsall in the West Midlands.
IT recruiter DP Connect has appointed Lucy Rees as senior IT recruitment consultant.
Rees, previously with SThree, will develop the firm’s business technology team, placing project managers and business analysts in the UK and mainland Europe.
The leadership team of Tokyo-based recruitment firm Wahl & Case is staying put, despite advice from foreign offices around the world for ex-pats to return home, according to managing director Michael J Case.
The CBI has urged the UK government to tackle regulation that prevents private and family-owned businesses from creating jobs and growing their businesses.
In a new report the CBI proposes:
WorkDigital has developed a new product that is able to aggregate data contained within profiles on social media sites.
Called thesocialCV.com, it is currently in private beta testing and uses semantic or natural language processing tools and filters to bring the data together, and constantly monitors status updates from more than 30 leading social media sites.
Ruth Elwood has been appointed head of resourcing for the corporate banking division at RBS.
Elwood’s previous role was at KPMG where she was head of recruitment for Europe.
Seven in 10 SMEs in the East of England are planning to hire between one and five apprentices in the next year, according to a survey by workforce development specialist TCHC Apprenticeship Survey.
The research also shows 28% of the 150+ small to medium enterprises from the East of England already employ apprentices.
International HR consulting group Penna Consulting has appointed Julie Towers as managing director of Penna Resourcing Solutions.
The former chief executive of Tribal Resourcing begins her new role today.
Recruitment, staffing and human capital management firm Logical Resources Recruitment Group has launched a new IT division in Manchester.
The division is led by managing director Grahame Morrison.