North East recruiter Jo Hand Recruitment has appointed Laura Stobart as regional operations manager to continue the firm’s expansion across Darlington, North Yorkshire and Durham.

Stobart has more than five years’ experience in the recruitment industry.

She is joined by Ryan Hamer, a recruitment consultant specialising in the engineering sector.

Elsewhere, search, selection and HR consultancy PGC has appointed Graham Murray as senior consultant.

Murray joins PGC to further develop PGC’s presence in the industrial, FMCG/consumer products, B2B, transport and logistics sectors. Murray has worked in search and selection for over 12 years, for Michael Page and latterly Odgers Berndtson, recruiting across a variety of business functions at all levels.