Recruitment giant Randstad has successfully completed the acquisition of US recruiter SFN Group.
The total value of the transaction amounts to around $771m (£475m).
Last month, Randstad announced its intention to acquire SFN Group through a cash tender offer at $14 per share, which would make it the third-largest HR services provider in North America.??
Rail, engineering construction and transport infrastructure recruiter Resourcing Solutions is to launch Resourcing International.
The firm will act as an advisory consultancy in talent management strategy, developing strategic policies in skills gap identification, analysis, talent management including employment brand, candidate attraction programmes, onboarding and retention.
Executive search firm Glasford International has appointed Miguel Swaen as director, finance & legal.
Swaen, who established Glasford International Netherlands more than 14 years ago, started his career at IBM and held sales management and executive appointments with technology leaders such as Tandem and Hewlett Packard (formerly Synstar Computer Services).
HR recruiter Anne Corder Recruitment (ACR) has appointed Rosie Hooton as recruitment partner.
Recruitment administrator Marie Rushton-Harrison also joins the firm’s Peterborough Park Road office.
Telecoms, engineering, defence, renewable and energy staffing specialist Everyone Everywhere (e1ew) has appointed Mark Viagas as recruitment manager.
Viagas will recruit for the defence market.
Government plans for a “national loans guarantee scheme” to help small businesses could prove to be of little help to smaller recruiters, according to Sean O’Donoghue, founder/UK group managing director, the Independent Recruiting Group (IRG).
US President Barack Obama has seen his $447bn (£287bn) jobs bill defeated 50 votes to 49 in the US Senate, falling well short of the 60 votes needed to advance the measures.
BBC News reports that not a single Republican voted in favour of the bill, objecting to the plans to spend money to stimulate the economy and create new taxes on millionaires.
Governance services firm Glass Lewis has announced its arrival in Limerick, where it will be setting up a new office.
Canadian executive search firm McCracken Partners has joined Penryhn International.
Penryhn is a network of independent executive search firms with member firms in 22 countries worldwide, including the UK and the US.
Prime Minister John Key has announced new policies that would incentivise employers to take on young, inexperienced workers by allowing a low minimum wage and reducing the strength of the unions, reports nzherald.co.nz