The government could offer more support to UK business to build HR talent according to Tracy Burrell, HR manager at domestic equipment cover provider Domestic & General, Nottingham.
Burrell told Recruiter: “The range of courses available to HR professionals are limited. Very often employees have to undertake training on a day release from employment or part release.
Accountancy recruiter Balance Recruitment has recruited Tracey Reece in a support function to its consultants.
Directors at HR recruiter Digby Morgan, Matthew Chester and Dona Battat, have both been promoted to the executive board of the company.
Rising fuel prices are reducing the distance temporary workers are willing to commute to work, according to recruiters.
John Salisbury, managing director of temporary agency labour procurer de Poel, told Recruiter: “Rising fuel costs have a direct impact upon the distance that temporary workers are willing to travel for work.
Most chief financial officers (52%) say their organisation does not use social media for recruitment, according to research from global recruiter Robert Half.
The research shows industry/professional networks was the most popular response among 27% of executives, followed by LinkedIn at 17%.
Most women in IT say they have been victims of gender discrimination, according to new research from IT and telecoms recruiter Greythorn.
The research also shows 85% of female workers in the sector say gender discrimination exists in the industry.
Chesapeake, a specialist packaging company, has appointed technical recruiter Encore Personnel as its strategic recruitment partner.
The supplier of cartons, labels and leaflets and specialist plastic packaging will be creating 20 new jobs at its new logistics site in Swadlincote, Derbyshire.
Marketing staffing specialist Network Marketing has strengthened its team with the appointments of TeeJay Jones, Angela Hough, Prathama Panigrahi and Laura Mallinson.
Jones and Hough have been taken on as consultants, with Mallinson and Panigrahi recruited as graduate trainees.
Medical staffing specialist Healthcare Locums (HCL) has accepted the resignation of non-executive director Alasdair Liddell.
Liddell, who has been an HCL non-executive director since its initial public offering in November 2005, is to step down with immediate effect to pursue other business opportunities.
US-based Magellan Search Group has brought in Jeff Olshin as part of its executive management team.
Magellan, an accounting, finance and renewable energy staffing and consulting firms in the Delaware Valley, Philadelphia, has also acquired JSO Staffing, the firm that Olshin founded, and this will now be operating as part of the Magellan Search Group.