Nearly half of workers aged 16–24 claim they would not work for companies that impose strict policies prohibiting business-orientated social media use, according to research from recruitment solutions provider hyphen.
Out of the 16-24-year-olds surveyed, 58.7% believe that using online networking sites such as LinkedIn at work actually increases their efficiency.
Procurement and supply chain recruitment firm, Langley Search & Selection, has been confirmed as a preferred recruitment partner of the Chartered Institute of Purchasing & Supply (CIPS).
CIPS members will be able to register with Langley, free of charge, to support their job search.
Fiji recruitment firm Access United’s managing director Varinava Tiko has told Australia’s Radio Australia that the country could make more than A$100m (£66m) over the next 10 years from money sent home by nationals working overseas.
Executive search firm Raines International has appointed Mary Lee Amendolia as the new managing director of its healthcare practice in New York
Amendolia previously left Raines in 2007 after four years at the firm, and before returning worked for financial services and technology search firm SEBA International.
Northampton-based commercial, industrial and social care recruiter Pebble People has appointed Kasia Zarzeczna and Mike Yau.
Zarzeczna joins the business as team administrator and sales support and Yau as a trainee consultant.
Property recruiter Deverell Smith Recruitment has promoted Fergus Pryor to head up its land and development management team.
Pryor was formerly a construction project manager, and has been with Deverell Smith a year and a half.
International financial recruiter Selby Jennings has opened a new office in Singapore.
A team of Selby Jennings’ consultants were joined by local consultants in Singapore on 13 June to open the new office in the centre of the financial district.
The Agency Workers Directive (AWR) that comes into force on 1 October could undermine a trend for employers to take on people as temporary workers first before recruiting them permanently, according to Albert Ellis, CEO of Harvey Nash Group.
Plans to redevelop London’s Earls Court could create 12,000 new jobs.
Today EC Properties, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Capital & Counties Properties (Capco), submitted planning applications for the Earls Court & West Kensington opportunity area.
PepsiCo will launch its mobile phone careers application for iPad, iPhone and Android in the UK later this year, following a soft launch in the US last February.