Construction staffing specialist Upfront & Personnel (U&P) has appointed Eamonn O’Cruthuir to the new post of recruitment director.
O’Cruthuir joins from Australian firm Alliance Recruitment and before that global staffing solutions firm Aquent, where he was general manager, Melbourne, Adelaide and Perth.
International marketing & retail recruitment consultancy Jackson Rose has opened a Hong Kong office.
The office, which will focus on temporary and permanent professional marketing and retail recruitment, will recruit marketing directors to store managers in luxury and retail markets under manager Oliver Li.
Careers site CV Library has launched sales job sites SalesJobs.co.uk and SalesVacancies.com.
Managing director Lee Biggins says: “Sales’ is one of our top industries and introducing sites attracting sector specific candidates is something we’ve been working on for a long time. We just needed to stay patient until the right domains became available.”
US executive search firm B.E. Smith has appointed Judy Spinella as vice president, project leader.
Spinella has more than 30 years of senior leadership experience in the healthcare industry.
Online employment outsourcer Elance has opened European Offices headed by Kjetil Olsen.
Olsen arrives from recruitment software provider Lumesse (formerly StepStone), where he was group director for mergers & acquisitions and new business.
Scottish oil and gas company Global Energy Group, who yesterday announced a deal that would bring 2,000 jobs to the company by 2015, has bought a 70% stake in Australian recruitment agency Global Resources Network, reports The Western Australian.
Global Resources Network recruits positions at all levels of seniority in the oil and gas industries.
Business lobby the Confederation of British Industry (CBI) suggests in a report entitled ‘Future Champions - unlocking growth in the UK’s medium-sized business’ that medium-sized firms have a major role in creating jobs and assisting the nation’s economic recovery.
Commercial, engineering, industrial and logistics recruiter Relay Recruitment has made two senior appointments in advance of a restructuring of the organisation.
Laura Cousins has been promoted from business manager to senior business manager, while Kate McKendrick takes over Cousins’ previous post.
More than half of students and graduates have seen workplace discrimination, and the majority would undertake unpaid internships even though they think they are unfair, recent surveys have shown.
Research from graduate jobs board Milkround shows that 37% of students have been discriminated against due to age or ethnicity, with 52% saying they had seen colleagues discriminated against.
IT recruitment firm and service provider FDM Group has appointed Brandt Rousseaux to the post of vice president for the company’s US office.
Rousseaux will oversee the firm’s expansion in the US from its present Wall Street base.