Employee benefits consultancy for medium and large corporations Bluefin Corporate Consulting has been acquired by outsourcing firm Capita from insurers AXA for £50m cash.
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Professional recruiter Robert Walters has launched its new job search app for iPhone, developed by Chelsea Apps Factory, saying it is “the first of a suite of apps” for jobseekers.
Social talent management solutions firm SilkRoad’s recruiting and onboarding technology, known as OpenHire and RedCarpet respectively, will be used by IT consultancy Milestone Technologies.
Youth unemployment in both Greece and Spain now stands at over 50%, with the number of people under the age of 25 unemployed across the Eurozone standing at 21.6%.
Research from headhunters Stanton Chase for news service Emirates247.com reveals the highest paying jobs in the region – with head general counsel at a legal firm at number one, earning on average US$330k (£206k).
The number of online advertised job vacancies in the US in March rose by 246,300 from the previous month, to 4,669,600, according to data from The Conference Board.
Applications to jobs posted on Facebook rose by 1,000%, while applications to jobs on Twitter increased by 500% in 2011, according to the sales director of Broadbean Technology. These figures were based on an analysis of jobs posted by Broadbean’s users last year, compared with 2010.
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Hospital Management and Supplies (HM&S), the medical and surgical division of Alliance UniChem, has announced the acquisition of one of its strongest competitors, Surgicon.
Last week’s Budget was condemned as “crass, cruel and crazy” by the truck operators’ body, the Freight Transport Association (FTA), who added that it was “callous”, “grossly unfair” and “stupidly short-sighted”.