The National Apprenticeships Service has launched a campaign through to next March to promote internships as a good investment to London and South-East businesses.
Supported by the office of the Mayor of London, the campaign will focus on press advertising through 65 newspapers.
The Mexican government’s ProMéxico investment programme will help to create 500,000 new jobs with large automobile manufacturers, reports newspaper El Mañana.
Cheshire-based IT recruiter Venturi has secured £300k of funding from Venture Finance.
The recruiter has been able to increase staff count by 60% and has moved to its own office.
The Royal Mail says it is “very confident” that negative comments made about its in-house agency Angard Staffing Solutions represent the views of “a very small minority”.
The firm supplying security staff to the London Olympics says it is ready to meet the challenges of supplying more staff than originally planned.
Scottish IT recruiter 9-20 recruitment has appointed Billy McDiarmid as operations director and Ridha Lachhab as recruitment executive.
McDiarmid has over 12 years’ corporate experience, the last six as a manager at HR Consultancy.
Marketing & Communications recruiter 2nd City Resourcing has recruited Jo Faria and Zinia Leedham
Faria takes on the role of director of 2nd City’s Birmingham office.
Leedham joins the business as a consultant, heading up the recruitment of marketing and communications staff for the professional services industry.
Recruitment software provider JobMate.co.uk has appointed Carla Fern as its new operation director.
The appointment allows the company’s managing director Richard Clarke to focus more exclusively on development and forward planning.
High unemployment and fiscal uncertainty means hospitality businesses have enjoyed a wider pool of potential recruits and decreased staff turnover, according to research from Caterer.com and hospitality skills council People 1st.
However, they must begin to prepare for a shift when the economic upturn comes, the quarterly survey shows.
