David Fairhurst, senior vice president, chief people officer at McDonald’s, has been appointed chairman of People 1st, the sector skills council for the hospitality, leisure, travel and tourism industry.
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Insourced recruitment solutions firm CPH Consulting has agreed a deal with technology solutions company Axispoint for its ‘On Demand’ offering, aimed at small and emerging companies with lower volumes of recruitment.
Jobs board Search.co.uk has agreed an exclusive deal with commercial radio station Real Radio to launch Real Jobs, a jobs portal on the Real Radio website
The site will bring around 1,500 vacancies across Scotland to Real Radio’s 700,000+ weekly listeners, as well as visitors to the website. Vacancies will also be promoted on air via a ‘Real Jobs’ feature.
New figures released today reveal that the government has won back over £125,000 in unpaid wages for agency workers since April.
Executive search firm NEXUSBioMed has joined forces with HUMANeX Ventures, a research, training and assessment firm, in a bid to identify the best talent for executive-level roles in science-based companies in the US.
A poll of global senior executive members of BlueSteps.com, a career management service for senior executives, has revealed that 48% expect the economy to rebound in the first half of next year.
Only 25% of those surveyed believe a recovery will occur in the second half of this year, with 27% are not expecting a recovery until the second half of 2010 or later.
ABM University NHS Trust has chosen the Kronos staff rostering solution to manage its employee rostering, and time and attendance across three main hospital sites including administrative and nursing staff.
Creative sector recruiter Purple has introduced a client reward referral scheme.
US executive search firm Equinox Partners, focusing exclusively on the real estate industry, has appointed David Jacobstein as managing director based in New York City.
Jacobstein joins Equinox from his role as senior advisor to accountancy and tax firm Deloitte’s real estate practice.
Public sector employment rose by 13,000 in the second quarter of 2009 to 6.039m, according to figures from the Office for National Statistics.
Employment in central government increased by 21,000, due mainly to growth in
employment in the NHS (18,000 increase).