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Paper-based goods company SCA is using recruitment software provider StepStone to homogenise its recruitment brand and encourage internal movement across its 52,000 global employees.
Caroline Brent, vice president of HR operational development at SCA, told Recruiterthat the move would reduce spend after the initial development.
Barclays Capital (BarCap), the investment banking arm of Barclays, is on a hiring spree to take on another 100 bankers, according to a report in the Independent. This is in addition to 140 bankers and traders taken on since September.
The new staff are a result of BarCap seeking to build up its M & A activities, and its European equities business.
Poland
Most Polish firms (52%) are recruiting professionals, while 30% are firing professionals and managers, an Antal survey shows. Recruitment levels are the highest in pharmacy (89%), IT & Telecom (64%) and FMCG (63%), and the lowest in automotive (22%) or real estate and building (33%).
UAE
I’ve taken over from John Cooper in leading NHS PASA during these challenging times. I have inherited a focused, committed team of professionals who remain determined to ensure best value for the NHS, the public purse and ultimately patient care.
Hot on the heels of OPD, IT recruiter FDM became the second publicly quoted recruiter in recent weeks to announce it is in bid talks with members of its own management team.
US-based VisualCV has made it possible for its users to more easily share their VisualCVs with business and social media sites like LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter.
Updates can still be made centrally and the VisualCV link can be sent across to almost any social network using a share function in just three clicks.
Hexagon is to allocate more than half a million shares to the sellers of Oxygen Executive Search, the company it acquired in 2005.
In a statement to the Stock Exchange, Hexagon says the award of 512,237 shares was triggered by the achievement of certain performance targets.
This is in line with certain provisions agreed at the time of the acquisition.
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