IT and financial services recruiter QPS Group has chosen Microdec Profile RPM recruitment software for use across the group.
The software aims to enhance operations and streamline recruitment processes at QPS’s Longbridge Search & Selection and Qualitas People Solutions’ brands.
Media group Johnston Press has appointed Jobsite as its official online recruitment partner.
Jobsite will supply Johnston Press’s JobsToday recruitment portals across its 300+ websites in England, Scotland and Ireland.
Eastern Europe shows strong potential for temporary workers, according to new research from Eurociett and Interconnection Consulting.
Recruitment process outsourcing (RPO) specialist Alexander Mann Solutions (AMS) and business process outsourcing specialist Xchanging has formed a strategic alliance to provide end-to-end human resources solutions.
The partnership will allow firms to access separate or bundled services. ?
Finance and business services provider Oriel has appointed Trevor Deacon as group sales and marketing director.
Deacon has been with Oriel since early 2007 as joint managing director of Oriel Collections and previously worked in the factoring and discounting market for 12 years.
Andre Teasdale also joins as business development manager.
IT and technology recruiter Modis managing consultant Annabelle Moggridge has shown she can spot a winner by correctly selecting the winner and runners-up of BBC TV show ‘The Apprentice’ in the 1Job.co.uk and CornishFarmHolidays.co.uk ‘The Apprentice – Predict The Winner Competition 2009’.
Niche website EuroSIMA Cluster has launched a website promoting employment opportunities in the surfing, skating and snowboarding industries.
The site provides training programmes that prepare candidates to work in the industry through roughly 130 courses in France. From September 2009, this will be extended to Europe and beyond.
Elite Leaders has announced a number of high-profile individuals who will make up its non-executive director (NED) service available to companies, The Elite Faculty (Recruiter, 22 July, p10).
The Department of Business (BIS) is petitioning the High Court to have seven medical recruiters in the West Midlands put into compulsory liquidation in the public interest.
A provisional liquidator was appointed on 30 July to the companies after a petition was presented in the High Court by the department of Business to wind up the firms.
Sapian-Solutions, a joint venture between InterQuest and business leader Ian Pope, has launched to provide niche recruitment services in the SAP market. InterQuest will own a majority stake in Sapien-Solutions.
Pope has 12 years’ recruitment and sales management experience focused within the Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) space.