As public sector executive vacancies plunge, senior executives will struggle to find similar positions in the private sector, according to executive search firm InterExec.
The firm says that it has seen senior executive vacancies in the public sector drop by more than two thirds in the three months from February to May.
Agency recruiters who want to get into HR should move in-house first, according to the head of HR at Deloitte.
IT recruiter Concept IT has reported increased turnover for 2009 and has seen “some return to normality” in trading conditions, according to Chris Short, managing director.
The firm’s results reveal:
Executive search firm Kinsey Allen International has appointed Debbie Bennett as marketing director.
Bennett will be responsible for building and expanding the Kinsey Allen International brand and supporting the firm’s with a focused marketing strategy.
She joins from professional training company BPP, where she helped build BPP’s premium law school brand.
An online lead-generation system is helping to increase business development opportunities for recruiters by identifying new job vacancies from data within their existing databases.
Umbrella services company I-paye has launched a dedicated tax service aimed at meeting a growing demand of EU nationals taking up senior jobs in the UK.
Legal recruiter Chadwick Nott has appointed Peter Ferguson as a consultant to lead its new legal interim division in the South-West.
Ferguson joins from Michael Page and will serve industry & commerce and public sector clients for locum and temporary solicitors.
Sport Structures Recruitment has appointed Gary Katzler as director and full board member.
Marketing and HR recruitment firm The Stopgap Group has appointed Andy Young as head of commercial partnerships, in a new senior role to focus solely on developing and managing relationships with RPOs, MSPs and other third-party businesses.
Young moves from his role within the Stopgap business as a senior consultant in the FMCG sector.
As Chancellor George Osborne announces that a levy on banks is to be made permanent, the government has been urged to resist “biting the hand that feeds it” by Dave Way, managing director of accountancy and financial services recruiter Marks Sattin.