Engineering recruiter Gravity Personnel has acquired multi-sector recruiter Forest Personnel.
Local Reading newspaper Get Reading reports that Gravity Personnel director has taken over the running of Forest Personnel following the retirement of owner Jean Charmak.
Capita has acquired the European loan administration, asset management administration and commercial mortgage backed securities administration services of Capmark Financial Group for a cash consideration of approximately £10m on a cash-free, debt-free basis.
Eighteen agencies supplying drivers to businesses in the West Midlands have been warned that they are failing to comply with the law and could face prosecution if they don’t change their ways, according to a government statement. Further action is being considered “in a number of cases”, the statement said.
The offences included:
Recruitment software provider Bullhorn has launched in the UK today (15 June) by securing a contract with technical resourcing specialist Talascend, which employs 1,100 staff worldwide.
A recruitment firm has asked hundreds of pupils from a secondary school near Aberdeen to paint their self-portrait which expresses how they see themselves in the future.
Aberdeen-based Thorpe Molloy Recruitment, a multi-sector recruiter, is asking the pupils of Alford Academy to paint their portraits, with up to 50 pieces to be displayed in the company’s office.
Demand for marketing & communications staff is increasing, though employers are only looking for proven performers, who can hit the ground running, according to Badenoch & Clark.
Nick Eaves, executive director, marketing & communications at Badenoch & Clark, says: “The job market is showing improvement as many companies look to upgrade their marketing capability.
Interim manager and executive search firm Hexagon Human Capital has announced an increase in net fee income (NFI).
For the year to 31 March 31 2009, NFI increased by 15% to £22.5m (2008: £19.5m).
Over the year, Hexagon’s interim management business increased by 9%.
Grafton Employment Group has launched a new recruitment outsourcing and HR consultancy brand targeting both Irish and global markets in a move designed to deliver a major long-term expansion of the Irish-based international group.
Grafton ESP – standing for employment solutions portfolio – will be based in Northern Ireland.
Niche medical job board MedicHunter.co.uk has been launched.
Clients can sign up for a free account and start posting jobs straightaway, and the site www.medicHunter.co.uk is designed to be very easy to use, says Viviane Goodwin, the site’s creator.
The number of recruiters in ‘critical’ financial difficulty has more than doubled in the past year, according to new research.
The research by business rescue, recovery and restructuring firm Begbies Traynor found:
• the number of recruiters with ‘critical’ financial problems rose from 24 in Q2 to 55 in Q2 of 2009, a 129% increase