Executive search firm Kinsey Allen International has announced a strategic alliance with Australian-based Jon Michel Executive Search (JMES) to place candidates looking to move from London to Australia - and provide career opportunities for their own consultants. 

The move follows research from both firms revealing that 50% more Brits will be working in Australian finance services sector by end of 2010 (compared to 2008) as China powers the Australian economy, while 69,250 Brits will work in financial services in Sydney and Melbourne by end of year.

Kinsey Allen group chief executive, Ken Brotherston, says: “The flow of skilled workers has changed direction.  Now that Brits are increasingly considering a life overseas we see London’s financial services professionals  looking increasingly towards Melbourne and Sydney - rather than the other way around – accordingly we have had to look again at our overseas network.  Our alliance with Jon Michel Executive Search will help us strengthen our links with clients and candidates in Australia.”

Jon Michel, managing director of Jon Michel Executive Search, adds: “Forming a strategic alliance with an international player had been on our agenda for some time.  Kinsey Allen International already provides executive search services from offices in New York, Hong Kong, Munich, Paris, Zurich and Doha as well as the UK.”