Executive search firm Korn/Ferry International has appointed Frank Hollmeyer as senior client partner, financial services.
Hollmeyer was previously head of the EMEA asset management practice at Heidrick & Struggles and will be based at the firm’s London office.
Provider of in-sourced direct sourcing solutions, cph, has appointed Lesley Taylor head of client services.
Taylor has been promoted to this newly created position having previously managed three of cph’s major technology sector accounts during her four years at the company.
Her new role gives her overall responsibility for service delivery across all cph’s accounts.
Executive search firm Odger Berndtson has appointed Cheryl Lobell as a partner of the firm’s life science and healthcare division.
Lobell will be based in New York, moving from her current role in Singapore with the same company.
Lobell has 22 years’ experience in human resources with companies including Standard Chartered Bank, Colgate-Palmolive and Astra Zeneca.
Global executive search firm Horton International has formally launched in India.
Staffing software provider Safe Tempest has signed a deal with technical recruiter CBSbutler.
A Safe Tempest statement says that that it now provides software for “over half of the UK’s top 50 recruitment companies”.
The government-funded Career Transition Partnership (CTP) which works to get ex-armed forces personnel into work reports it is being approached by over 80 new companies a month.
Temporary Christmas staff taken on by Angard Staffing, the Royal Mail’s staffing arm outsourced to Reed Specialist Recruitment, have complained of not receiving their pay, with some reportedly staging walkouts at offices including Bristol, Chelmsford and South London.
The government is planning to charge employees between £150 and £1,750 to bring claims to employment tribunals, in a move which will have the effect of increasing small businesses’ confidence to hire.
Specialist communications recruiter, VMA Group, has taken on Caroline Lynch as senior consultant to manage its healthcare practice.
Caroline brings more than 20 years’ public relations and communications experience from in-house and consultancy, including Weber Shandwick, Munro & Forster, Ruder Finn and Nexus Communications.
Sainsbury’s has awarded Jupiter Advertising its UK recruitment communications account.
The supermarket chain has hired the employer brand specialist to manage all its recruitment marketing and communications activity at retail, support centre and graduate level.
Jupiter has tasked with the revitalise and reposition Sainsbury’s as a top employer brand and candidate destination.