Logistics consultancy OPS has launched an executive search and interim management division.
The new service will be led by Richard Tucker, an experienced headhunter and interim manager. He and the team at OPS aim to simplify the process of recruiting for businesses within the logistics sector with this new solution.
A new hiring index launched by international executive search consultancy ZRG Partners has revealed a war for talent in parts of the market for life sciences staff.
Angela Cunningham has joined Howarth Morris Financial Selection from Hays.
Cunningham specialises in qualified and part-qualified finance recruitment and will be based in the firm’s Warrington office.
Chadwick Nott has appointed Briony Barber as a consultant in its national paralegal team.
Specialist in-sourced direct recruitment solutions provider CPH has agreed a two-year RPO contract with Opal, the Talk Talk Group business-to-business communications network operator.
Food manufacturing and warehousing recruitment specialist Industrious has appointed Darren Davis and Lauren Parker as contract managers.
Davis will be located at the firm’s Sheffield office, while Parker will be based in Edinburgh.
Meanwhile, Industrious’s Leeds head office welcomes Philip Wagstaff as business development manager.
Despite UK companies reverting back to outsourcing call centre operations abroad, most customer facing roles are likely to remain in the UK, according to Mark Conway, director at Contact Centre Partners.
The six-month moratorium on drilling in the Gulf of Mexico, following the explosion of the Deepwater Horizon oil platform in April is hitting recruiters in the sector, according to the director of an oil and gas recruiter.
Employer demand for new workers was maintained in August, according to the latest Reed Job Index.
The index, which tracks the number of new job opportunities and salaries compared to the previous month and against a baseline of 100 set in December last year from reed.co.uk, gave a reading of 102, unchanged from last month.
Healthcare recruiter Pinnacle Staffing Group has completed the sale of its agency nursing and medical services business to Ambition subsidiary, Arabella Health Staffing,