Management teams in troubled businesses are increasing the use of interim recruiters.
Steve Baggi, co-founder and director of Green Park Interim and Executive Resourcing, told Recruiterthe company had experienced a 20% increase in demand for turnaround skills in the last six months.
Urgent government action is required to get banks lending again if the manufacturing sector is to avoid going into freefall, according to an economist at the Centre for Economics and Business Research.
Multi-sector recruiter Impellam has appointed Linda Philp senior vice president and chief financial officer of its North American operations
Philp replaces Gary Petry who has left the Impellam with immediate effect.
“There’s no pre-conceived idea about who can be a good recruitment consultant and who can’t. It’s all about delivery,” Kate Bleasdale, Healthcare Locum’s founder, and executive vice chairman, told Recruiter.
Multi-sector recruiter Pertemps has launched a new arm to its business Network Brand Partnerships.
Network Brand Partnerships, which purchased CNA International in December establishing 20-strong executive search franchise network to high-street focused partner networks, also has a healthcare arm evolving from Pertemps Healthcare, entitled ‘Network Health and Social Care’.
Graduate Success and the Bright Futures Society have come together to form Bright Futures Resourcing.
The new organisation will work with organisations to spot graduate talent and develop that talent through their time at university to prepare them when they enter the world of work.
Following a meeting with the department for business, enterprise and regulatory reform (BERR) on Friday, the Recruitment and Employment Confederation (REC) is to push for the latest possible implementation of the agency workers directive.
Financial recruitment specialist, Ardent has launched a procurement, supply chain and logistics division. The division forms part of Ardent Search, its executive recruitment business.
Lee Hutchinson, who heads up the new division, will be based in the Leeds office, servicing the M62 corridor.
Nearly three out of four (72%) private sector workers surveyed say they are more likely to consider a public sector job now compared to a year ago, according to Hays’ Public Sector Survey 2008.
Despite continuing job losses, and uncertainty about hiring intentions, Paul Venables, finance director at Hays, says, it’s not all bad news for recruiters in the City. There are grounds for optimism in certain niche areas.
“It’s probably the best time in your life to be a credit scorer,” Venables told Recruiter.