Swift action to cut the UK’s debt could hamper economic growth and job creation, according to Dr John Philpott, chief economic adviser at the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD).
Yesterday, the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) predicted that around 600,000 jobs would be shed in the public sector over the next five years.
IT recruiter Redrock Consulting has been be appointed as a specialist recruitment partner by the Carbon Trust, the not for profit company set up by the government to lead UK’s move to a low carbon economy.
Engineering solutions providers and project specialist Voltas has appointed Avinash Dixit as business group HR head.
Industrial, technical and commercial recruiter Aligra Personnel is to merge its Abingdon and Swindon offices.
International HR recruitment specialist Frazer Jones has appointed Shibli Miah as consultant in its Dubai office.
Miah has worked for global multi-national recruitment firms Michael Page International and the FiveTen Group and has spent the past few years working within the Middle East/Africa region.
She will focus on recruiting HR specialists.
Logistics consultancy OPS has launched an executive search and interim management division.
The new service will be led by Richard Tucker, an experienced headhunter and interim manager. He and the team at OPS aim to simplify the process of recruiting for businesses within the logistics sector with this new solution.
A new hiring index launched by international executive search consultancy ZRG Partners has revealed a war for talent in parts of the market for life sciences staff.
Angela Cunningham has joined Howarth Morris Financial Selection from Hays.
Cunningham specialises in qualified and part-qualified finance recruitment and will be based in the firm’s Warrington office.
Chadwick Nott has appointed Briony Barber as a consultant in its national paralegal team.
Specialist in-sourced direct recruitment solutions provider CPH has agreed a two-year RPO contract with Opal, the Talk Talk Group business-to-business communications network operator.