Travel recruiter Gail Kenny Executive Search (GKES) has won a three-year contract to recruit executives for the Institute of Travel & Meetings (ITM) UK & Ireland under the ITM Recruitment brand.

 
ITM Recruitment is one of a number of value-add services ITM has embarked on creating since 2004, with research, events and more recently the creation of ITM Academy, aimed at attracting graduates into the industry with ITM-approved degrees.  

Gail Kenny, managing director of GKES, says: “While attracting the right staff in lean times is of paramount importance, so is managing the resources you already have.  Because of this, we intend to create a forum for HR managers in the industry, as part of our ITM Recruitment programme, to discuss the most effective way of retaining and re-deploying talent already in place.”
 
Ian Brooks, director at GKES, told Recruiter: “ITM represents travel buyers so in an economic downturn, everyone wants to cut their costs and keep them as low as possible. If we can help find these companies really smart people who think outside the box, aggressive buyers that can negotiate much smarter deals for their clients, then that is going to help them save money and that is what we are good at doing.”