International specialist recruiter Empresaria is set to acquire 28% of the minority shareholding of FastTrack Management Services, a subsidiary of the company.
After the acquisition of the minority shareholding, Empresaria will own 94% of FastTrack, a staffing company that specialises in the placement of construction and engineering personnel on both a contract and permanent basis.
Former Recruitment & Employment Confederation (REC) chair David Winterburn has been re-elected president of European search and selection organisation ECSSA.
ECSSA (European Confederation of Search and Selection Associations) represents roughly 600 search and selection consultancies across France, Italy, Belgium, Spain, Germany, Luxembourg and the UK.
Financial recruiter Goodman Masson has chosen Active Dashboards software from Dynistics to provide a highly visual graphical representation of key performance and operational targets across the organisation.
Active Dashboards is used to graphically represent individual consultants’ operational statistics as well as other key performance measures broken down by client organisation.
Oil and gas executive search firm Maxwell Drummond International has strengthened its team with a number of board and management appointments.
Steve Cardno, chief financial officer, and Scott MacDonald, vice president of corporate services join the board.
International recruiter Harvey Nash has won a multi-yearcontract worth €43m (£37.4m) with Alcatel-Lucent Deutschland.
Harvey Nash will provide line delivery and technology engineering services in the field of fixed telecommunications for several Alcatel Lucent products.
Kevin Green, REC
The number of short-term staff billings rose at its fastest rate in more than two years, according to the latest REC/KPMG Report on Jobs.
The banking industry’s demand for talent in infrastructure areas such as finance and IT is approaching the dizzy heights of 2006, according to the founder of multi-sector Twenty Recruitment Group.
Talent and career management consultancy Right Management, a Manpower company, has appointed Tony Thornell as head of public sector.
Thornell has been with Right Management for 16 years, holding various director level appointments within the company.
Interim management provider Russam GMS has appointed Paul Fleming to lead its healthcare practice.
As head of healthcare, Fleming will develop the practice’s interim management offering to NHS and private healthcare organisations.
