Dealmakers

18-Mar-2009

Gibbs looks to US
IT recruiter The Gibbs Partnership has merged with Strategic Staffing Solutions to form GibbsS3 to focus on international business. Farida Gibbs, managing director of The Gibbs Partnership, told Recruiter: “The customers I have here in the UK also have operations in the US and I
found my team was working 24/7 to service both sides of the business.”

Verifile checks out China
Pre-employment screening company Verifile has secured an exclusive contract with China Academic Degrees and Graduate Education
Development Centre (CDGDC) to check Chinese academic and vocational qualifications.

TheAgency tries Ad Lib
Brand response company TheAgency has agreed a managed recruitment service contract with media, creative and marketing recruiter, Ad Lib.

SAS marketing for BP
Energy giant BP has hired SAS, part of the Publicis Groupe network, as its single recruitment marketing communications supplier for graduate and experienced candidate attraction. Until now, BP’s recruitment marketing was conducted through multiple global suppliers.

Concept IT is sole supplier
IT recruiter Concept IT has secured a sole supplier recruitment deal with IT solutions firm Wincor Nixdorf. Concept IT is to supply all contract and permanent recruitment in the UK for engineering roles, including service engineers, technical helpdesk, repair, technical support engineers
and product specialists.