US-based executive search firm Sanford Rose Associates has opened an office in Phoenix, Arizona, and appointed Joan Jordan as managing director.
Jordan most recently served as vice-president, supply chain development at Cypress Semiconductor in San Francisco Bay.
The fourth Annual Recruiter Forum took place yesterday in London to discuss the topic ‘How to emerge from the recession a stronger brand and push your business forward with confidence’.
Graduate recruitment topped the agenda at last night’s Recruitment Society event in London.
The audience of nearly 100 recruiting and resourcing professionals heard presentations from the McLaren Group on its graduate leadership programme and the latest Graduate Recruitment Survey from the Association of Graduate Recruiters (AGR).
BNB Recruitment Consultancy (BNBRC), the wholly owned subsidiary of Garner, has gone into liquidation.
In a statement issued to the Stock Exchange, Garner says: “It was agreed that there is no realistic prospect of BNBRC paying its debts, and accordingly there is no alternative but to take the necessary steps to place the subsidiary into creditors’ voluntary liquidation.”
Tony Reeves
IT, accountancy, hospitality, leisure and professional services recruiter Kellan Group has made a loss of £4.4m but has already seen ‘much stronger performance’ in 2010.
Female interim managers are being paid up to 30% less compared with their male counterparts for doing the same job, according to research from the Institute of Interim Management (IIM).
Working Links is to deliver between 700-800 courses over a 17-month contract to help more than 8,000 young people as part of the government’s Routes into Work programme.
Ethical businesses can win up to £5,000 in a new competition from the brand image firm at Creatively Minded Design.
A review of 31 listed recruitment businesses by advisers to the recruitment sector BDO has revealed a 32% average write-down in the value of goodwill for acquisitions made during the boom times. of value eliminated from the recruiters’ balance sheets overall, according to BDO’s review.
Legal recruiter Shilton Sharpe Quarry has released its results for the year ended 31 December 2008.
Operating profit grew to £1.18m from £1.17m in 2007, while profits after tax for 2008 rose to £749,212, up from £728,980 the previous year.