Global HR firm Mercer has appointed Richard Doig as a senior consultant in its outsourcing business.
Based in Windsor, Doig’s responsibilities include client management, regulated advice and operational delivery.
He joins from Heath Lambert Consulting where he was a regional director for total reward and benefits.
People Plus Recruitment has rebranded as First4Staff.
The firm says it has taken the decision due to a restructure across its group of companies which has led to the streamlining of the business and rebranding.
Signs of improvement in the engineering sector could be a “false dawn”, according to chief executive at technical and engineering recruiter Morson Group.
More employees will hand in their notice this week than during any other week of the year, with a staggering 37% of the year’s total happening this week, according to research by Resource on Demand.
The annual statistics show that 37% of resignations occur in the third week of September and 24% happen during the first week of February.
The rise of social media is not a seismic shift for recruiters, Jon Porter, managing director of TMP Worldwide, told a Recruitment Society meeting in London.
Demand for senior-level IT staff has increased despite ongoing uncertainty regarding the economy, according to IT recruiter IntaPeople.
The firm found that requirements for senior IT positions in August soared by 39%, compared with July.
The ’pull factors’ used by recruiters to attract candidates to a company must be the same as those valued by candidates or employers risk losing out on the best talent, the head of Randstad UK has warned.
Professional staffing recruitment consultancy Barclay Meade, part of the Matchtech Group, has hired Sue Palmer as manager of its finance and accountancy division.
Palmer joins from Martin Ward Anderson and will focus on recruiting permanent and interim finance professionals, from recently qualified through to chief financial officer level, throughout the Northern Home Counties.
Employers should be allowed to use agency workers to cover in industrial action, according to John Cridland, deputy director-general of the CBI.
In a new report, the CBI has outlined a raft of measures aimed at modernising employment relations legislation and keep the recovery on track.
Education recruitment specialist Aspire People has appointed Yolanda Rickells and Jane Whitfield as recruitment consultants.
Rickells previously worked for Activant Solutions as a sales and marketing co-ordinator and will be working under Kelly Steadman in the firm’s office and technical support staff division.