If intra-company transfers (ICTs) are not included in the immigration cap, the government will fail in its promise to cut immigration from 196,000 to the tens of thousands by 2015, according to Ann Swain, chief executive of the Association of Professional Staffing Companies (APSCo).
Home secretary Theresa May is due to unveil details of the immigration cap later today.
Global executive search firm CTPartners has appointed Alex Bennett as principal in its life sciences & healthcare practice.
Bennett joins from executive search firm Ruston Poole International and will work with clients across medical devices, pharmaceuticals, life sciences and healthcare sectors.
He will be based in CTPartners’ London office.
Smart Solutions Recruitment has appointed Paul Gorin as commercial director.
Gorin is founder of Cardiff-based Marble Recruitment in 2004 and was managing director of the firm before its acquisition by Time4Recruitment.
Executive search firm Kinsey Allen International has taken on Kate Sumner-Brown as a consultant in the firm’s legal practice.
Sumner-Brown will focus on mid- to senior-level placements in alternative investments, specialising in private equity and hedge fund formation, and M&A transactional work.
She reports into managing director of the legal practice, Fiona Gibb.
The accountancy sector requires professionals with interpersonal skills as well as technical expertise, according to Sonja Stockton, PwC director of recruitment.
Executive search and outsourcing provider MRI China Holdings has appointed BL Seah as country manager for Singapore.
BL Seah was previously director of industrial, healthcare and consumer practices at Hudson Singapore.
MRI China Group is based in Hong Kong and has operations in mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan and Singapore.
Medical staffing specialist Healthcare Locums (HCL) has accepted the resignation of Diane Jarvis as chief financial officer of the firm with immediate effect.
HCL says Jarvis’ employment has also ceased with immediate effect.
The government’s social mobility strategy cannot come quickly enough to boost diversity in the legal profession, according to Naveen Tuli, managing director of legal recruiter Laurence Simons.
Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg Yesterday outlined a new ‘social mobility’ policy with the promise of jobs for clever state school children.
The expansion of UK retailers into Asian markets could see a surge of procurement jobs created in the UK, according to Peter Burgess, managing director at retail staffing specialist Retail HR.
This comes on the day in which supermarket Tesco reports that itsunderlying profit rose 12.3% to £3.8bn for the year ended February, thanks to a strong performance in Asia.
Staffline’s purchase of welfare-to-work provider Fourstar Employment & Skills will give the industrial recruiter and training firm the ‘third leg’ it has been looking for, according to chairman and chief executive Andy Hogarth.