Job board reed.co.uk has launched a new job sharing feature promoting vacancies via Twitter and LinkedIn.
The new service, free to all recruiters, provides the option to share vacancy details via Twitter and LinkedIn accounts, to further extend their online reach.
Multi-sector professional recruiter Twenty Recruitment Group is expanding its operations as turnover rises.
Results for its second full year of trading reveal turnover has risen by 350% to almost £4m (2009: £0.9m).
Meanwhile, net fee income was up 250% at £2.2m (2009: £0.6m) and headcount at 2010 year end was 32 (2009: 13).
Professional services firm Towers Watson has launched a new subsidiary — Towers Watson Danismanlik in Istanbul, Turkey.
Süha Alici, who has been with Towers Watson since 2007, has been appointed as managing consultant to lead and grow the Turkish business.
Centaur Media, owners of Recruiter, has acquired The Forum for Expatriate Management (FEM). The FEM has built the world’s leading membership community of global mobility professionals and operates associated internet services and events, including major conferences, exhibitions and awards.
Two in five young Britons say there aren’t enough jobs for older people to be in work, while 14% think older people should retire to make way for young workers, according to research from older people’s housing and care provider, Anchor.
Randstad Business Support, Randstad Care, Randstad Domiciliary Care and Randstad Education are coming together to form a new Randstad ‘super’ office in Leeds City centre.
The central King Street office will house 30 consultants with Randstad Financial and Professional (the new name for Martin Ward Anderson) joining later in the year, adding a further six consultants to the new team.
Eight in 10 graduates wish they had attended sessions on CVs, interviews and job hunting at university, according to research from recruitment giant the Matchtech Group.
The research also shows more than 55% agree or completely agree that their university provided them with relevant career information.
South Africa’s unemployment rate rose 1% between Q4 2010 and Q1 2011, according to Statistics SA.
The official data revealed the country’s unemployment rate increased from 24% to 25% in the period.
Secretarial and office support recruiter La Crème UK has rebranded as Morgan McKinley.
Multi-sector recruiter Impellam Group, on behalf of its wholly owned subsidiary The Corporate Services Group, has announced that the firm has repaid, in full, the final obligations under a £20m 10% secured loan.