Change management recruiter Circle is to adopt an ‘Apprentice-style’ approach to hiring new recruits.

Circle will recruit three or four headhunters after putting candidates through a two-week assessment involving tasks in roles across the company’s business.

‘The Apprentice scheme will allow us to identify and nurture local talent to meet the needs of our prestigious clients,’ says Circle managing director Henry Massey. ‘As an Exeter University graduate myself, I know that we have the talent and ability in the south west to compete with London firms,’