International recruiter Harvey Nash says “early indications are encouraging” in its first interim management statement for the financial year ending 31 January 2011.
The statement reveals that:
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Job board reed.co.uk has launched a major advertising campaign.
New reed.co.uk ads, featuring a ’Love Mondays’ campaign line, can be seen across the commuter transport network in South-East England.
At the same time, a new digital campaign is being launched alongside audio advertising on music-playing service, Spotify.
Powerchex, a pre-employment screening firm for the financial services industry, has been acquired by global employment screening company, HireRight. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
US retained executive search firm Martin Partners has placed Douglass W VanDegrift as controller of Linden, a Chicago-based private equity firm specialising in healthcare and life sciences.
Before joining Linden, VanDegrift was an audit director at accountants McGaldrey & Pullen.
Executive search firm Hitchenor Wakeford has placed Richard Allen as finance director at waste management group Augean.
Allen was acting group finance director at Kelda Holdings, owner of Yorkshire Water and a number of water-related businesses in the UK and US. He was previously financial director at Nestlé Ireland and joins the Augean board.
RPO provider Alexander Mann Solutions (AMS) has agreed an exclusive partnership with Indian executive search and selection firm ABC Consultants.
The UK’s manufacturing sector has seen a surge in employment in Q2, according to British Chambers of Commerce’s latest Economic Survey.
The survey shows that employment in manufacturing rose 35 points to +19%. Employment expectations in the sector also increased by 16 points to +14%.
Former Morgan McKinley chief executive Robert Thesiger on Wednesday (14 July) formally launched his new City-focused recruitment business, BRUIN Financial.
Established in March, the financial services recruitment firm now has 31 staff. “We have about 73 clients now,” Thesiger told Recruiter. “For four-and-a-half months, that’s good going.”
Recruitment agencies can only build strong relationships after they have demonstrated their value to clients.
Hays has launched the next stage in its challenge to a £30.4m fine imposed by the Office of Fair Trading for competition law breaches, according to sources close to the company.