INTERNATIONAL Asia-Pacific: Acorn group overseas expansion steps up
28 March 2012
Recruitment and training firm Acorn Group is extending its a new overseas business focusing on mining, engineering and resources recruitment in Africa, Asia and Australia, currently operating out of bases in Perth and Singapore.
Weds, 28 March 2012
Recruitment and training firm Acorn Group is extending its a new overseas business focusing on mining, engineering and resources recruitment in Africa, Asia and Australia, currently operating out of bases in Perth and Singapore.
Brisbane and Adelaide offices are due to be opened by the end of the year.The full overseas launch follows a year of development and an initial pilot programme in Australia run by Acorn’s Scott Liddle and Lewis Fawsitt, with Wyn James now joining them as head of the Asia-Pacific region, based in Singapore.
James has spent the last 20 years in the Far East working with businesses including investment bank JP Morgan Chase and the Royal Bank of Canada.
Acorn says it is looking for candidates “with engineering skills, such as ex-forces personnel who are struggling to hold down suitable employment here in the UK, and who may be seeking a new life on the other side of the world”, according to a company statement.
Matt Southall, group managing director of Acorn, says: “We have not rushed into this. It has taken 14 months of research, planning and development to reach the point of launch.”
Speaking at Recruiter’s Fast 50 event earlier this March, technology recruiter SThree’s chief executive Russell Clements told the magazine about his firm’s way of going about planning and enacting overseas expansion.
Recruitment and training firm Acorn Group is extending its a new overseas business focusing on mining, engineering and resources recruitment in Africa, Asia and Australia, currently operating out of bases in Perth and Singapore.
Brisbane and Adelaide offices are due to be opened by the end of the year.The full overseas launch follows a year of development and an initial pilot programme in Australia run by Acorn’s Scott Liddle and Lewis Fawsitt, with Wyn James now joining them as head of the Asia-Pacific region, based in Singapore.
James has spent the last 20 years in the Far East working with businesses including investment bank JP Morgan Chase and the Royal Bank of Canada.
Acorn says it is looking for candidates “with engineering skills, such as ex-forces personnel who are struggling to hold down suitable employment here in the UK, and who may be seeking a new life on the other side of the world”, according to a company statement.
Matt Southall, group managing director of Acorn, says: “We have not rushed into this. It has taken 14 months of research, planning and development to reach the point of launch.”
Speaking at Recruiter’s Fast 50 event earlier this March, technology recruiter SThree’s chief executive Russell Clements told the magazine about his firm’s way of going about planning and enacting overseas expansion.
