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The chief executive of a company that co-ordinates arrangements in which interns often pay employers a fee, that can be as high as £200 a day for work experience, says he wants to build a network of recruitment agencies across the UK.

January will see the publication of Recruiter’s 2012 Fast 50 league table, compiled by Boxington Corporate Finance, for the UK’s fastest growing recruitment companies. Last year, sector specialisation was a dominant feature of the top tier of recruiters. For the 2012 rankings, another factor was the most significant in the rankings.

Recruitment firm ForceSelect, winner of the 2011 Recruiter Awards for Excellence’s Best Newcomer Agency category, is creating a working group to focus on how to help the UK’s service leavers to find jobs.

Nine out of 10 corporate members of the Recruitment & Employment Confederation (REC) support the idea that “robust self-assessment should be part of the trade body’s joining process”, according to a survey.

Business transformation recruiter Venquis has appointed Clare Eades as head of the company’s insurance division.

Producing the skills that UK business needs must be a three-way relationship between employers, universities and undergraduates, according to Richard Irwin, head of student recruitment, PwC.

Irwin says: “It looks like the employer/university relationship will become more important as the new wave of fees comes into force and students expect a clearer route into employment.

Procurement, supply chain and purchasing recruitment firm Langley Search and Selection has appointed Steven Deverill as operations dfirector on the Langley board.

Deverill has has spent eight years managing key accounts for Langley, first as a consultant and latterly building the Langley interim team as head of Langley’s interim practice.

Procurement, supply chain and purchasing staffing specialist Langley Search and Selection has appointed Ross Pheby as their head of interim practice.

The former senior consultant for the firm’s interim practice now joins Langley’s management team.

Four recruiters who repeatedly criticised the Recruitment & Employment Confederation (REC) management and practices in an online forum run by the REC have been kicked out of the group in the latest stage of a long-running dispute.

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