Executive search specialist Commodity Search Partners has appointed Richard Paisley, chief executive of procurement and supply chain recruitment specialist Proco Global Group, as a non-executive director.
Before his appointment at Proco Global, Paisley was responsible for founding GRS Group which was sold to a private equity backed MBO for £18m in 2008.
Engineering recruitment specialist Cammach Recruitment has appointed Donna Liddle as business development manager.
Liddle will focus on extending Cammach Recruitment’s client base in the UK in addition to boosting the company’s international sales.
She is also charged with offering ad hoc marketing consultancy, strategic analysis and marketing solutions to the firm’s clients.
Engineering and construction recruiter Platinum Recruitment Services is to open new offices in Newcastle and Manchester next month.
Public sector recruiter and outsourced services provider Servoca has acquired the business, trade and assets of nursing recruiter Phoenix Employment Services.
Multi-sector recruiter Central Employment Agency has appointed Denise Low as team leader of its commercial division.
Low will be responsible for leading the commercial team and will also look after temporary vacancies including vacancies from local public sector organisations, private business and the NHS.
Multi-sector recruiter Relay Recruitment has appointed Kerry Dawson and Rachel Hunter as heads of the firm’s commercial permanent placement desks.
Dawson joins the Leeds office from Kelly in Johannesburg, while Rachel returns to Relay’s York office after a year at IT recruiter Spring.
Research In Motion (RIM), the Canadian manufacturers of BlackBerry mobile phones, say they have made progress in negotiations with the UAE to stop suspension of the handset services next month, according to a senior company official.
Irish-owned professional recruitment consultancy Premier Group is rebranding three of its recruitment businesses — Premier, Verkom and Brunel — to Morgan McKinley and is creating 75 jobs in Morgan McKinley’s Irish operations over the next 18 months.
The firm adds that it will support the move with a €1m (£0.87m) investment to launch and develop the Morgan McKinley brand in Ireland.
HR consulting group Savile Group says it expects pre-tax profit to be at the “lower end” of market expectations, in a trading statement for the year ended 30 June 2010.
Despite a 21% drop in public sector job postings in the last quarter, CWJobs.co.uk and JobAdsWatch.co.uk reveal that overall the IT jobs market for permanent staff has increased at its fastest rate for over three years.
For the fourth consecutive quarter there has been an increase in the number of jobs advertised, with 8% more since March 2010.