Innovate CV and Sterling Infosystems partner

Talent acquisition software and services provider Innovate CV has partnered with background checks provider Sterling Infosystems.

Direct Employers Association ‘fills in-house niche’

The Direct Employers Association (DEA), the newly-launched trade body for corporate recruiter employers, fills a specific niche that is not met by other membership organisations within the recruitment and staffing sector, according to its chairman.

Sector Analysis — Human Resources

Austerity has forced HR to be more commercially minded and technology has contributed to making this happen — a virtuous circle is in place

Amrop hires new partners across EMEA

Executive search firm Amrop has taken on five new partners across its European and Asian offices, four coming from outside of the recruitment industry.

Fairsail supplies auto-enrolment product to RICS

HR technology provider Fairsail has won the right to supply its pensions auto-enrolment product to industry body the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS).

HR and recruitment issues to come to the fore in SA local government

The South African Local Government Association (SALGA) says that a new people strategy including improving recruitment into strategic positions is needed to turn municipalities into more professional and responsive entities, reports the South African Government News Agency.

In-house recruiters should ‘learn from their agency cousins’

In-house recruitment and HR professionals may not always be on the most cordial of terms with recruitment agencies, but last week at our Smart Resourcing conference, sponsored by Eploy, one of the major takeaways was that corporate resourcing professionals should “learn from our agency cousins” in how they ‘win’ business within their company.