Ochre House launches employer brand practice

Recruitment process outsourcing (RPO) and talent management firm Ochre House has opened a new practice focus on developing employer brands for its clients.

Sourcing the right talent was worth it

L’Oréal wanted to attract people to work for them who may not be actively looking to change jobs. Linkedin was the perfect solution

The year of the API

Social media has created myriad databases, but what about sharing all this collective information? Stephen O’Donnell is head of sales and marketing with 1Job.co.uk, and is chair of the National Online Recruitment Awards

City Comment: Sue Dodd_3

The financial markets have been extremely volatile in recent weeks, well reflecting the party-pooping news being relayed by economists and central bankers. However, following several consecutive days of FTSE 100 decline described by Kean Marden in his Recruiter column two weeks ago, there eventually followed a partial recovery in global stock markets, driven upwards by hopes for the ‘Merkozy’ political alliance aimed at stabilising the Eurozone.

City Comment: Sue Dodd_2

While financial markets around the world continue to balance the ongoing debt worries in the Eurozone against more positive news elsewhere, even including some better economic indicators in the US, the pause in decision making by businesses on a global scale is sending a chill into the GDP figures of several countries.

City Comment: Kean Marden_4

For many centuries, the ‘black dog’ has been used as a euphemism for depression, most famously by Sir Winston Churchill in the Second World War and Dr Samuel Johnson in the 1700s.

INTERNATIONAL Egypt: New museum to create 15,000 jobs

Cairo’s Grand Egyptian Museum will provide 15,000 jobs when it opens in 2015, according to an announcement from minister of state antiquities, reports HotelierMiddleEast.com.