The Danish government has selected MatchWork to provide its new job board advertising all central government jobs.
The new site for Personalestyrelsen [Personnel Board — the state’s employers’ organisation and a part of the Ministry of Finance] is set to launch this summer.
The recruitment process is officially over for filling the position vacant of Downing Street cat.
The BBC reports four-year old Larry, a tabby, has successfully landed the coveted role. Larry was at London’s Battersea Dogs and Cats Home before moving in to the UK Prime Minister’s home.
Diversity in senior roles is not about appearances only, according to Sarah Churchman, director of diversity and engagement, PwC.
Creative industry staffing specialist Purple has appointed two new consultants in its design agency and digital teams.
Karan Kaur joins Purple’s Design Agency team and will be responsible for supplying freelance designers and artworkers to design agencies, including packaging, corporate identity and branding, and annual reports.
Succession planning and attrition are the key concerns in the accountancy sector, according to Chris McCarthy, director at Hays Senior Finance.
More than a fifth of employers are planning to recruit migrant workers in Q1, according to research from a survey from the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD)/KPMG labour market survey.
Executives would be prepared to accept a pay cut of 50% to land their dream job, according to new research by PwC in conjunction with the London School of Economics and Political Science.
The research also shows a quarter of respondents prepared to take a 70% cut, while only 5% of respondents would not take any cut for their ideal job.
Online recruitment agency Recruitment Genius has acquired multi-sector online recruiter iEmploy.net for an undisclosed sum.
Recruitment Genius says it is determined to achieve and maintain an even greater market share and has set itself some challenging growth targets, which will be achieved by the addition of some carefully selected strategic acquisitions.
Robert Walters will continue to invest in regions with “strongest” opportunities for growth as revenues rise in its results for the year ended 31 December 2010.
The group’s results reveal:
Recruitment specialist pfj network has rebranded as Aspire Global Network.
The firm says its former name was synonymous with the pfj brand, so has decided to rebrand using a name that combines its branded career development programme ‘Aspire’ with its vision of ‘developing a global network of specialist recruiters’.