US executive search firm Battalia Winston Amrop has acquired the executive search business of Centennial Advisory Group, a Stamford, Connecticut-based executive search firm specialising in the investment management industry and hedge funds.
Frank Carr, founder of Centennial, has joined Battalia Winston as a partner in the firm’s financial services practice.
North-West based Scantec Personnel, a technical, engineering, scientific and commercial recruiter, is reorganising its management team in anticipation of an upturn in trading in 2010.
Technical and engineering recruiter NES Group has issued a warning to fellow recruiters over the increasing dangers posed by online content theft after its own website was targeted.
The process works by firms copying and pasting information from other websites when creating their own web pages without permission.
Driver and industrial recruiter Transline-Resource has set up a new compliance team to uphold its high standards of HGV driving and training.
Industrial recruiter Staffline says it expects trading to be ahead of expectations in its latest update.
The long-term unemployed are finding it easier to find work, reflecting growing optimism that the labour market is improving, according to a welfare to work charity.
Career Development Group (CDG) says that it placed 7% more of its long-term unemployed clients into work in October 2009 than in January 2009.
Financial firms are concentrating on increased pay deals ahead of short-term incentive schemes, according to a new survey from human capital, compensation and employee benefits consultancy Mercer.
The survey of 61 global financial firms found that:
IT and engineering recruiter Connections Recruitment has appointed Kim Moxham as researcher.
Simon Voice, practice manager, says: “Given her excellent track record of detailed and thorough candidate research, we believe that our clients will see a direct benefit in their search for the best talent in the sector.”
