Recruitment and training firm Acorn has appointed Ian Dunn as branch manager for its Preston operation.
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National recruitment and training firm Positive Outcomes has appointed Martin Wright as head of training, development & quality.
He joins existing team members Cheryl Peto, head of HR & support services, and Gemma Cripwell, head of finance.
Financial accountant leads a raft of 11 top finance and accounting jobs for 2011, according to the 2011 Robert Half Salary Guides.
The top 11 include:
Commerce & industry
Educational recruiter Simply Education has appointed Daniel Black as a new consultant.
Black will be charged with growing the firm’s Bedford secondary desk and launching its Hertfordshire desk.
More than half of financial services firms expect recruitment to rise in H1 on H2 2010, according to Morgan McKinley’s 2011 hiring market survey.
Meanwhile, more than a third of managers (34%) expect their organisations to focus on replenishing staffing levels, while another third (36%) anticipate equal focus on new headcount and replacement hiring
Communicate Recruitment Solutions has launched a new banking and financial services team.
The new team will focus on placing candidates in roles from vice president to managing director across the interim and permanent market of change management and accounting.
Education staffing specialist Strategy Education has appointed Alex Collins as an education consultant.
Collins has experience of teaching and coaching within schools and training establishments within Essex and London.
Half of contractors say recruiters are more relevant than ever before, according to a survey from accountancy firm Brookson.
HR consultancy Mode HR has decided to change its name to AIMS International Executive Search.
Mode HR had previously retained its original name following its selection as exclusive representative of AIMS International for Australia two years ago.
Headquartered in Vienna, Austria, AIMS International Executive Search has offices in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane and New Zealand.
Successful social media strategy needs to be aligned to recruitment and business strategy, according to Arie Ball, vice president for talent acquisition at Sodexo USA.
At TRU [The Recruiter Unconference] London 3, Ball told delegates that Sodexo had looked to social media vehicles to rebound from a “humongous” disaster of outsourcing its recruitment in 2004.