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Capita Group, the business process outsourcer and professional services company, has secured outsourcing contracts and renewals worth £767m in the first four months of 2009.
In an interim maangment statement, the company says that among the contracts secured were:
Recruitment and retention solutions provider Kenexa has appointed former army recruiting director Andrew Jackson to spearhead its expansion into the public sector.
Jackson, a former brigadier in command of the British Army’s Recruiting Group, which enlists around 20,000 men and women each year, joins as vice president of government solutions.
A new recruitment division has been launched by front of house outsourcing and training specialist arena21.
The division will be headed up by Kevin Hall, who joins the company from an international recruitment specialist.
The “monster monopoly” that would be created if a merger between American Airlines and British Airways goes ahead will result in the loss of travel jobs, according to recruiters.
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John Tolmie has stepped down as managing director at multi-sector staffing firm AA Appointments.
A public relations agency is entering the recruitment market with a website that enables jobseekers to showcase themselves to employers in their own words.
Jobsite adverts are to feature at stadiums across the UK as part of Take That’s sell-out tour.
The adverts will appear on multiple nights at each venue – two at Sunderland and Cardiff, three in Coventry and Glasgow, four in London and five in Manchester.
Recruitment website Remote Employment and BT Business are looking for the most innovative business that demonstrates how remote working and home working has made a beneficial impact on their business and home life for The BT Home Business Award.
UK Businesses that can demonstrate how work life has benefited from running a home office could win one of the £50k prizes.
The former chief executive of Ipsos MORI in the UK, Mike Everett, is to become global HR director for the Ipsos Group and join the Global Management Board.
Everett, who joined MORI in 1996, will be based in London when he takes up his post in July. He was a key figure in two management buy-outs of the MORI business. Before joining MORI, Everett worked for a management consultancy.