Recruitment-to-recruitment consultancy Aston Taylor has strengthened its team with a number of new appointments.
Jay Gohill, Greg Pedder, Sarah Alberts join as consultants.
Keith Canning, sales director of Aston Taylor, says: “We’ve hired three new consultants and expect to hire another six by the end of the year.
Bob McKinlay and Monika Kaluzna are new owners of transport and logistics staffing specialist Driver Hire’s Twickenham franchise.
The Twickenham franchise covers all Twickenham and Uxbridge postcodes but initially McKinlay and Kaluzna will operate the business from Driver Hire’s Wimbledon office before moving to new offices in Twickenham in December.
Medical revalidation of doctors should also apply to locum doctors, according to Richard MacMillan, chief executive of healthcare staffing agency PULSE.
Financial services executive advisory and search firm Veni Partners has appointedJulia Gallop as chief operating officer and Anna Marietta as principal.
More than half of Middle East firms are planning to increase headcount in 2010, according to research from Middle East job site Careertunity.com.
The research also shows that jobsites are the preferred method of recruitment for most respondents, while salary growth is expected to average between 7 and 7.5% in the United Arab Emirates and 7.9% across the Middle East region this year.
Public sector HR departments have been urged to think about ways they can support staff both emotionally and practically as the sector prepares to cut headcount.
Insurance intermediary Kwik Fit Insurance is on the hunt for 70 new members of staff to join its Uddingston call centre.
Professional services firm KPMG is to increase its planned UK intake of graduates, school leavers and interns from 900 to over 1,000 for September 2010. This is due to growing signs that market demand for accountancy, tax and advisory services is set to rise, according to the company.
Apex Health and Social Care officially launched its Hire a Hero initiative in Manchester’s Belle Vue Greyhound Stadium.
The number of recruiters that have experienced ‘significant’ or ‘critical’ financial distress in the first quarter of 2010 has risen by 18%, according to insolvency practitioner Begbies Traynor’s latest Red Flag update.
In the North West, 270 recruiters reported ‘significant’ or ‘critical’ problems, a rise of 50%