The recruitment team at Lockheed Martin will be “at the real sharp end” of discussions around the US defence giant’s planned expansion of its UK operations, the function’s head Jonathan Young tells Recruiter.
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Banking group Barclays has partnered with Future First, a provider of alumni networks for state schools, to reach out to a wider and more diverse pool of applicants in 2013 for its Retail Development Programme (RDP).
Enterprise applications and software provider SAP has appointed Matthew Jeffery to the newly-created role of global head of talent acquisition strategy and innovation.
New Zealand construction recruiter Key Skills Recruitment’s director Ailsa McGavin says she is “surprised and heartened” by support it has received from clients after a construction company it supplied to went into receivership last week.
Security provider G4S has said that it will lose £20m more than originally expected over its ill-fated involvement with the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games, after agreeing to waive a larger proportion of its project management charge.
General union GMB says that online retailer Amazon’s use of temporary labour from Randstad “is equivalent to selection at the dock gates in Victorian times and is casual labour of the worst kind”.
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) says it will work to ensure it can continue to oblige the unemployed to take part in work schemes in order to claim their Jobseekers Allowance (JSA), despite a High Court ruling that such claims were legally flawed.
The need to remain competitive in the market has emerged as a key driver for the use of travel & subsistence (T&S) schemes within recruitment, according to the results of a special survey by Recruiter, supported by labour provider Staffline.
Defence, security and aerospace firm BAE Systems says it is set to recruit its largest intake of apprentices in five years in 2013, while the Welsh government has welcomed a deal that should create 100 jobs at Carmarthenshire firm Hydro Industries
Three major commercial projects are likely to generate jobs in Malvern, Lincolnshire and South Wales.