Leeds-based cloud computing specialist virtualDCS has hired Nicola Towler as marketing executive.
Recent media and marketing graduate Towler joins the virtualDCS team following the appointment of Andrew Cuthbertson in a business development role.
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Recruitment software provider networx recruitment and criminal record bureau (CRB)-affiliated Personnel Checks have partnered.
The deal means networx clients will be able to include CRB checks in their recruitment process.
There are also plans to make it possible to perform Personnel Checks screenings directly from networx software.
US Federal Reserve chair Ben Bernanke has urged the government to thinking “carefully” about the best way to support job growth through state support for smaller companies and entrepreneurs, reports Bloomberg News.
Bernanke says that small businesses have had a leading role in fuelling US economic recoveries in the past.
US temporary workforce provider Kelly Services has announced the acquisition of Brazilian temporary, permanent and executive recruiter Tradição Tecnologia e Serviços.
Tradição has 13 branches across Brazil.
Pedro Caldas and Sergio Valentim, the founders of the firm, remain involved with the company “for a transition period”, according to a press release issued by Kelly Services.
Performance levels in the business service sector has revealed a significant rise during Q3 2011, however confidence for the future among business owners is still a concern, according to new tracking data.
The BRIC countries (Brazil, Russia, India and China) should no longer be seen as emerging markets, but as growth markets, according to Jim O’Neill, the chairman of Goldman Sachs Asset Management.
President Felipe Calderón has announced that the country’s economy has created 764,000 new jobs this year to 15 November, according to newspaper La Prensa.
In the first half of November, 37,000 jobs were created, leaving job creation in the month on course to exceed the monthly average of 66,400.
When considering hiring a new member of staff, two-thirds of UK small businesses value experience over qualifications, research from online HR consultancy Reabur.com has shown.
Korn/Ferry subsidiary Futurestep Australia has announced a three-year permanent and temporary recruitment process outsourcing (RPO) contract with Australian renewable energy company AGL.
AGL has until now used more than 70 different recruitment agencies to recruit for as many as 600 jobs a year across Australia, which receive an average of between 30,000 and 40,000 applications.
Accountancy firm Brookson has launched Brookson Connect software, developed alongside IT firms Insight UK, TVision Technology and Mando Group.
The software gives freelancers an up-to-date snapshot of their income, tax and overall financial position.