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Specialist communications recruiter VMA Group has continued its recruitment drive with the appointment of six new staff members for its London and Manchester offices.
The Association of Executive Search Consultants (AESC), the worldwide professional organisation for retained executive search consulting, has released its 2010 report on executive search in transition.
Taking breakdown and motoring organisation AA’s recruitment process online and streamlining it has seen the number of completed applications roughly double to more than 30,000 in two years.
Since fully adopting StepStone Solutions’ iGRasp offering, the AA has also halved its time to hire from 77 days in 2006-07 to 37 now, according to Lorraine Lopez, HR resourcing manager.
Search Consultancy is opening new premises in Dundee.
The firm, which has had a presence in Dundee for more than 10 years, is moving to a new city centre location at City Quay.
Two-thirds of the 350,000 new jobs created in the UK this year have gone to young people aged under-35, with the remainder filled by people aged over 50.
One in five workers claim they will change jobs within a year due to dissatisfaction over pay, according to the ‘2010 Employee Attitudes to Pay’ survey from the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD).
The survey also reveals 57% would continue working as usual, while 7% say that they would work less hard and 2% plan to take industrial action.
US-based Instant Technology, a provider of technology staffing solutions, has launched Instant: Executive Search, a new division dedicated to finding the best full-time technology talent ranging from executive to entry-level.
This marks the merger of two Chicago-based technology staffing firms, Instant Technology and LionSearch.
Base salaries in the banking sector are at a four-year high, according to research from recruitment specialist Poolia.
The analysis shows that during 2010, the average salary for a banking employee in the City was 17% higher than in 2009, 25% higher than in 2008, at the height of the credit crunch, and 17% higher than in 2007.
Argyll Scott International, the middle management recruitment brand of the Redgrave Group, has strengthened its team with a number of appointments.
Stephanie Baker and Jeremy Wertheimer join the firm’s C&I (commerce and industry) perm team as consultants.