Damon Thomas has joined market research recruitment specialists Hasson Associates as senior associate.
Thomas brings 10 years of recruiting experience to Hasson, having previously worked at agencies including Elizabeth Norman International, RPCushing and The SG Group.
Before entering recruiting, Thomas worked as a marketer.
Whitbread Group, operator of Premier Inn hotels, Beefeater Grill and Costa Coffee among others, has announced it is on target to create 2,500 new jobs in the year to February 2012.
Enterprise application software firm SAP has promoted Laura Burton to human resources director for the UK and Ireland, overseeing the company’s 1,100 employees in the region.
Multi-sector recruiter Specialist Recruitment Group has appointed four new consultants.
Paul Singh joins as head of the legal division, following 11 years recruiting for private and in-house roles.
Sion Woodward, also with 11 years of experience, arrives to launch the company’s new mechanical and engineering division, joining from Swanstaff Recruitment.
Cloud-based talent development platform Juice officially launches today.
The platform is aimed at recruiters worldwide, offering on-demand video learning, and is available for use the same day as purchase.
The company has been supported by investment from Dan McGuire, as chairman of the board and Graham Palfery-Smith, who joins as non-executive director.
Multi-sector recruitment firm Initio International has achieved £37.8m turnover in its first year of trading, to 31 December 2010.
Gross profit for the firm operating across the UK, US and Spain stood at £8.7m, totalling £1.9m profit after tax.
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McDonald’s is already going for the gold in recruitment activities in the warm-up to the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games.
Management and executive recruiter threesixty has appointed Sophie Nixon as partner.
Nixon joins from Robert Half International and has specialised in senior financial recruitment in the North-West of England for more than 15 years.
Multi-sector recruiter Advantage Professional has hired Adrian Penge as managing consultant in the accounting and finance division of the firm’s Manchester office.
Penge has over 15 years’ senior level financial recruitment, most recently at executive search and interim firm Archer Mathieson.
He will work with clients across the North-West of England.
Specialist recruiter Hays Procurement will provide a procurement and supply management recruitment and career support service for UK and overseas members of the Chartered Institute of Purchasing & Supply (CIPS).
Hay Procurement will offer CIPS members a priority service, including careers advice from expert recruiters, through its regional offices.