People Moves 17th September 2008

The Ultimate Recruitment Company has appointed Tom Waddell as its new managing director for Scotland.

Waddell joins as Scotland MD for Ultimate Recruitment

The Ultimate Recruitment Company has appointed Tom Waddell as its new
managing director for Scotland.

Waddell has worked in the recruitment industry for 25 years, having
worked as operations director for Reed Employment, with responsibility for
over 40 branches covering hospitality, industrial and social care.

“I am looking forward immensely to building Ultimate Recruitment into a
major force in the Scottish recruitment market,” said Waddell.
“The idea with Ultimate is to offer the hospitality industry a more
boutique service — we don’t want to be all things to all men,” he told
Recruiter.

The company has now opened a second office in Glasgow. Currently
catering to hotels, pubs, bars and restaurants, Ultimate is also considering
covering call centre and administration roles.


 

Reed Employment has moved Jojo Brown from Wakefield to Sheffield, to head up its city centre team as business manager.

IT recruitment-to-recruitment firm Clarity Sales Resourcing has appointed Joanne Murphy as a recruitment consultant to cover the London and South-East areas.

Executive search consultancy Carmichael Fisher has strengthened its European presence by hiring Clio Demetriades as head of practice in London and Camilla Newman as senior consultant at its Londonbased legal search practice.

Berkeley Scott has appointed hotelier expert Willie Wood as senior consultant on its hotel general management team.

City-based contingency IT recruiter Contract Connections has continued its expansion with the appointment of Grant Clements, Simon Smith and Chris Cole to the specialist contract
team, and Matt Lockwood to the professional services team as consultants.

Leeds-based recruitment consultancy Permanent Futures has appointed Joy Thomas as a specialist consultant to the public sector contracts within the government’s School Improvement agenda.

Trinity Mirror Digital Recruitment has appointed Paul Halliwell as managing director to speed up development of Trinity Mirror’s specialist digital recruitment portfolio, includingGAAPweb.com, totallylegal.com, PlanetRecruit.com and SecsintheCity.com.

JPA Recruitment to Recruitment has appointed Matt Capon to head up its Dubai division. Multi-sector recruiter Central Employment Agency has made several new appointments and promotions to create a new commercial recruitment team. Victoria Dorward has been promoted to oversee the team, Nicola Rodman will lead the new training section and Julie Madsen has been appointed as the new accounts assistant.

Birmingham and Bristol-based childcare recruiter Eyears has appointed Richard Smith (below, right) as business developmentmanager, with the aim of opening new branches across the UK, and Michelle Broadhurst (below, left) as an education consultant.


Fircroft Group has appointed Graham Caton as a recruitment manager based in Cumbria. He will head up permanent appointments within the nuclear and power generating sectors in the UK and overseas.

Marketing, advertising, publicrelations and creative industries recruiter Big fish Recruitment has appointed two new staff members to its marketing communications team. Moira Ballantine joins as business development manager in its Warwickshire-based office and  Aimee Mann as a recruitment consultant.

Bournemouth-based Fresh Recruits is celebrating the expansion of its all-girl team, with the appointment of Kerry Brookes as a branch administrator, Laura Rabbiats as a temp administrator, Rebecca Pothecary and Alyson Morris as a senior consultant, after winning a contract to supply a large Poolebased banking client with temporary staff.

Marketing and creative services recruiter Xchangeteam has promoted Rodney Crouch to senior agent in its events and marketing team. In addition, Katie Austin in PR and communications and Ronnie Smith in design and advertising have been promoted to agent, while Jake Surrey has been promoted to junior agent.
 
Recruiter has been informed that Pat Beckwith has not started with UKI, as published in the 20 August issue, but has chosen to remain at Meridian Business Support’s Liverpool branch.

 

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