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.
Residential property agent Jonathan Morgan, managing director of Morgans City Living and recruiter Chris Tinson have joined forces to launch Veritas Recruitment Solutions, specialising in the construction, property and renewable energy sectors.
Relocations and removals staffing specialist Mobility People International (MPI) has launched.
The firm has been set up by directors Sarah Collins, Mark Hunter and John Morley.
MPI operates internationally from a head office in Richmond, London.
Executive search firm CTPartners has appointed Mark Dixon as partner in its financial services practice.
Dixon, who joins CTPartners from Hutton Consulting, a specialist financial services boutique, where he was head of the technology practice, specialises in conducting chief information officer and senior technology team searches across the financial services industry.
HB RIDA, the joint venture between the Recruitment Industry Development Agency (RIDA) and private equity firm Hamilton Bradshaw, has appointed Sam Morris as investment director.
Global life sciences executive search and interim management specialist RSA has appointed Perry Evans as director.
Evans was previously with the RSA Interims team.
The Recruitment & Employment Confederation (REC) chair, Angela Masters (left), has stepped down from her post.
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).