Communicate Recruitment Solutions has hired Kathryn Haralabidis to head up a new IT division.

Haralabidis joins the business to establish and grow the team, which will offer both permanent and interim IT recruitment to blue chip firms. She previously worked at Pathway, part of SThree Group, where she led a team within the IT commercial contract sector. She later joined Gravitas Recruitment Group in the role of team leader.

Communicate specialises in placing mid to senior finance, treasury, change and IT professionals into banking, commerce and industry and consulting firms.

Haralabidis says: “IT is still a huge area in recruitment –several surveys have been released stating that Web 2.0, .Net, Java and wireless technologies are hot it the market at the moment.

“Network and security skills are also becoming more and more important, especially as companies expose more and more of their networks and data to the world.”