Deloitte, the business advisory firm, is urging students to gain work experience during their holidays, to enhance their employability when starting their career.
Stevan Rolls, head of HR at Deloitte, says: “Companies want to employ people who have put their time to good use and gained transferable skills from their experience to date.
Not-for-profit professional body the Institute of Recruiters (IOR) has appointed a number of regional directors.
IT recruiter Penta Consulting has appointed Amy Carsen as assistant HR manager.
Carsen joins from Barclays Capital where she was responsible for the recruitment and selection of new employees. She also has experience as a headhunter, having previously worked at Burberry and Harrods.
Technical roles will continue to be difficult to fill in 2011, according to a report from international job board OilCareers.com.
The report also predicts near-term increase in exploration will result in demand for drilling positions, but longer-term outlook suggesting a 14% decrease in this area by 2018.
Standard Chartered Bank is recruit 1,800 new staff into its financial markets unit over the next three years, according to news agency Bloomberg.
Bloomberg says that the firm is to double the headcount in the unit from 1,700 to 3,500, with most new hires occurring in businesses operating in Asia-Pac/emerging markets.
BECTU, Equity and the National Association of Supporting Artistes Agents have launched a petition urging the Department for Business Innovation and Skills (BIS) to examine the case for the licensing of agents in the entertainment industry.
Twitter is reportedly testing a new analytics product. The online social and digital media resource Mashable says a “select” group of users has been chosen for the test and the product will provide information such as most successful Tweets and those which cause people to “unfollow”.
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Scottish services companies saw an overall fall in headcounts in November for the first time since January, according to the latest data from Bank of Scotland.
As Samsung ramps up its recruitment, the global war for mobile software engineers talent is set to intensify, according to Mark Beard, managing director at technical and IT staffing specialist Vertex Solutions.
Beard’s comments come in a week in which electronics giant Samsung announced that it will create 25,000 new roles this year.