Medical technology company Smith & Nephew has chosen vendor managed service provider Comensura to manage all its UK recruitment requirements. Smith & Nephew anticipates that Comensura will enable it to makedirect cost savings of between 6 and 8% of its total UK recruitment spend,thanks to greater efficiency.
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RPO provider Advantage Global has signed an agreement with Remploy to help more jobseekers with a disability or health condition into sustainable work.
Retail recruiters have been urged to offer creative solutions to clients as consumers get creative around their shopping habits.
Retail news website instore.co.uk reports that the recession has forced 87% of consumers to change their shopping habits, according to a study by research consultancy Shoppercentric.
Hospitality recruiter Berkeley Scott is working with the BBC to find people who would like to take part in Series 3 of The Restaurant with top chef Raymond Blanc.
Berkeley Scott is passing on this opportunity to its candidates via its newsletter and website.
Premiership football clubs are not immune to the downturn blighting the hospitality sector, recruiters have claimed.
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Financial services recruiters say they have seen no signs of increases in demand for mortgage staff, despite mortgage lending jumping to a 10-month high.
Non-profit teacher training association Future Leaders has used a site from salesforce.com to “automate and integrate its mobile recruitment process”.
Force.com Sites will allow Future Leaders to run its website in salesforce.com’s cloud, extending its reach to candidates on intranets, external websites and online communities.
An REC Scotland regional director has slammed calls for equal rights for temporary workers from day one of any assignment instead of after 12 weeks, under proposals in the EU Agency Workers Directive.
Diverse language skills are in demand in the downturn, according to a report from multilingual recruiter Euro London Appointments.
The report finds that while Dutch, German, Japanese and Russian remain popular within finance, Euro London has witnessed an increased demand for Arabic, Gujarati, Polish, Czech, Cantonese and Korean as firms seek to enter new and alternative markets.
Using temporary workers in the NHS and social care could be costing money and compromising quality and safety, according to a new report published by a team of researchers at Leeds, Nottingham, Birmingham and West of Scotland universities.