ONLINE RECRUITMENT NEWS

Top headhunter and HR specialist, Veredus Executive Resourcing, has appointed David Welsh to head up its growing and increasingly sophisticated research and knowledge management team.

Towry Law, the professional financial services group, is today announcing a business partnership with one of the countryís leading providers of employment and health & safety guidance, Croner Consulting.

Today law firm, Thomas Eggar, announces that it has been awarded Age Positive Champion Status. The firm has been recognised as an age positive employer and is one of the few law firms to achieve this to date.

Lloyds TSB is using the UKís most sophisticated online psychometric test to help sift the high volume of applicants for its two-year Graduate Programme. Last year, the bank received over 3,800 applications for 102 places.

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In its annual submission to the Low Pay Commission (LPC), the TUC will today (Thursday) recommend an increase in the adult national minimum wage to 5.35 for next October, rising towards 6 by October 2006.

SHL has sold over 100 Expert Online systems to new UK customers in 2004. The product, which delivers online objective assessment of personality and preferred working styles, plus a variety of comprehensive reports, has proven hugely successful.

The launch of JobsInSearch.com last month has already been well received within the search engine industry.

Nearly Seven In Ten Bosses Agree Healthy Staff Keep Business In Shape

Consulte gets warm feeling from First Choice Software

A new study has shown that time, not money, is holding back the skills levels of the British workforce.

dunnhumby, the consumer insight and marketing specialist, has appointed Naomi Sutcliffe, formerly of Mercer Human Resource Consulting and American Express, as Group HR Director.

A recent survey conducted by ExecuNet, an executive job search network, reveals executives are slightly more optimistic about the employment market this month.

Specialist recruitment consultancy The Principle Partnership has appointed Jane Peters as deputy managing director.