Public sector recruiter Morgan Hunt has announced a number of senior appointments.
Terry Benson and Richard Corfield join the group’s board as non-executive directors.
Benson was chief executive of Michael Page from 1990 to 2006, growing its market capitalisation of £50m to over £500m to become the second largest recruitment business in the UK.
Innovations such as the introduction of ‘nano breaks’ will aid the travel sector’s recovery, recruiters have claimed.
The move towards shorter one-day breaks, as opposed to weekend trips away, will prove to be a shot in the arm to the sector’s job market, Julia Feuell, managing director at New Frontiers, says.
QPS Group has acquired London-based IT sales and marketing recruiter White Square Search through its UK subsidiary, Qualitas People Solutions (UK). The amount paid was not disclosed, however, the acquisition costs were met from the group’s cash reserves.
A man accused of the murder of a driver recruitment agency boss will appear in court today.
Russell Leon Carter, 52, of Rumney, Cardiff, South Wales, is charged with murdering director Kingsley Monk, 45, in October 2008.
Monk died at the scene at his office in New Inn on 20 October 2008.
A number of recruiters have been recognised at the Queen’s Awards for Enterprise.
Healthcare workers are confident over the industry’s resistance to the recession, according to a report from healthcare jobs site www.emedcareers.com.
Driving recruiters have condemned the chancellor’s increase on fuel duty in this week’s Budget.
Fuel duty is to rise by 2p per litre from September and then by 1p a litre above inflation each April for the next four years.
Bill Taylor, director at North East Workforce, told Recruiter that such an increase will hit his clients hard.
The piece on EA Recruitment’s use of YouTube videos to promote candidates (Recruiter, 15 April, New Media, p11) provided a stark reminder of the barriers caused by preconceptions and stereotypes in the recruitment process.
Worldwide executive searches fell 35% in the first quarter of 2009 against the same period a year ago, according to the Association of Executive Search Consultants (AESC).
Average net revenues were also down 38% for the same period, AESC’s ‘Q1 2009 State of the Executive Search Industry’ report revealed.
At global recruiter Adecco’s AGM, shareholders approved the re-election of all board members for a further year, as well as all other agenda items.