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Sean Smith and former Wales rugby captain Gareth Thomas have launched legal recruitment company Sean Smith & Associates.

The company will predominantly target criminal and civil law firms.

Finding talented workers is the second biggest worry for business leaders behind losing customers, reveals the 2011 Lloyd’s Risk Index.

The 2009 survey showed that lack of available credit was the biggest concern for respondents, with talent and skills shortages not featuring among the top five concerns in this edition.

The ability of workers to tackle two or more jobs at once has become a key for Bulgarian employers in the current crisis, according to sofiaecho.com, commenting on a report from Adecco Bulgaria.

The Royal Mail has denied that there have been any walkouts by Christmas temporary staff affected by issues including lack of pay, telling Recruiter that such outstanding issues will be resolved as soon as possible.

Concept Resourcing has promoted Caroline Bingham to the position of lead of its commercial division, while Melanie Fedeli and Kully Samra have also been promoted into management positions.

Bingham has over 10 years’ commercial recruitment experience.

GCS Recruitment Specialists has appointed its first head of a trading division.

Recruitment giant Adecco Group has reshuffled its executive committee.

Alain Dehaze has been appointed as the new regional head of France, Switzerland & India, replacing François Davy who leaves the Adecco Group.

High street bank Metro Bank has outsourced its recruitment function to RPO specialist Consort Group for a further three years.

The deal follows on from an initial agreement to outsource recruitment to Consort, which was concluded in March 2009.

Global executive search firm Sanford Rose Associates, which specialises in the life sciences sector, has appointed Eduard Alberts as vice president and managing partner.

Alberts has more than 20 years of experience in the life sciences industry, both domestically and internationally, as well as across different-sized companies and a wide array of cultures.

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