Sir Robert Worcester KBE DL, founder of market research firm MORI and chancellor of the University of Kent, has been appointed president of the Institute of Business Ethics.
Worcester succeeds Sir Peter Walters, now non-executive director of Nomura International, formerly chairman of BP, who has served as IBE President since 1994.
Regional aerospace and defence trade association Farnborough Aerospace Consortium and career management, training and consultancy Winchester Consulting have launched an online recruitment portal for the UK aerospace and defence industries.
Recruitment training and performance development specialist Lander Associates has appointed Alan Dickinson as guest executive consultant in residence for the summer.
There are a great many unexplored social networking sites at a recruiter’s disposal, says Amar Panesar, resource adviser at Foster Wheeler Energy.
Panesar’s comments came at Recruiter’s inaugural Smart Resourcing 2010 event at London’s Millennium Mayfair Hotel last week.
There has been an “overwhelming” response from UK Premier Inn employees looking to work at the international hotel chain’s new Delhi location, according to Jaspreet Khurana, Premier Inn human resources director in India.
International IT recruiter Darwin Recruitment has appointed John O’Sullivan and David Higgins as non-executive directors.
O’Sullivan is managing director of peer-to-peer business learning forum Elite Leaders and is currently non-executive director to several other companies. He founded the Best International Group, which was sold to Spring Group in 2003.
Executive recruiter GatenbySanderson has been appointed to the new buying-solutions framework agreement for non-permanent staff.
The framework replaces the former agreement for interim managers and specialist contractors and manages supply of interims to central government and the rest of the public sector.
Executive search firm Korn/Ferry Whitehead Mann has appointed Paul Benson senior client partner, industrial, and James Tapper, who joins as senior partner, head, leadership and talent consulting, UK.
Far from extinct, executive search uses latest methods
Philip Clarke’s position on the executive search industry and its use of social media (’A dinosaur in the information age’, Recruiter, 10 November) appears to be born out of a fundamental misunderstanding of the modern executive search industry.
