International specialist staffing firm SThree’s gross profit (GP) has fallen 3% year-on-year to £45.5m in the three months to 24 February, driven by challenging conditions in the permanent hire market, while Reed Specialist Recruitment has seen turnover rise slightly in the UK, but GP drop.
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Mark Roberts has been made the managing director of industrial staffing business gap personnel, while the firm’s founder Gary Dewhurst takes on the role of chief executive officer and UK operations director Emma Ceballos returns from a 12-month sabbatical.
Professional recruitment company Eames Consulting Group has appointed Peter Andronov as a consultant within its UK insurance change management group.
Specialist recruitment consultancy Blue Pelican has appointed Naomi Hopmans as a senior consultant in its marketing division.
The Association of Graduate Recruiters (AGR) will appoint as its new chief executive officer Stephen Isherwood, currently the head of graduate recruitment at professional services firm Ernst & Young UK & Ireland (EY), when incumbent Carl Gilleard leaves this summer.
Executive search firm Amrop has taken on five new partners across its European and Asian offices, four coming from outside of the recruitment industry.
Recent results from the quoted recruitment companies under our coverage indicate that there could be some grounds for optimism.
As the influence of Google exerts itself in all areas of business, and will be of particular concern to recruitment agencies looking to stand out from the competition, digital entrepreneur John Straw says there is one word that can sum up how to ‘beat’ the search giant: remarkable.
The death of Venezuela’s socialist president of 14 years Hugo Chavez has led to the possibility of the market opening up – and recruiters with interests in the region and its significant oil industry are showing cautious optimism for long-term opportunities.
Background screening technology provider Accurate Background has launched a bilingual online candidate checking tool, allowing recruiters to deal with jobseekers using languages other than English – with French Canadian the first language included.