Specialist multi-sector recruiter McGregor Boyall has appointed Lucy Frost as talent manager.
Frost has 12 years experience in recruitment, training and development at Ernst & Young and specialist information and knowledge management recruitment firm TFPL.
Indian engineering firm Thermax has appointed Sharad Gangal as executive vice president, human resources.
Gangal was previously general manager human resources with HDFC Standard Life Insurance where he was responsible for HR, administration, training, employee engagement, resourcing and strategy for talent retention.
Recruiters are set to gather at the Institue of Directors (IoD) to learn how to successfully place consultants on contract assignments with Dutch client companies.
‘Business Success in the Netherlands’ will be attended by Pim Waldeck, ambassador of the Kingdom of the Netherlands to the UK.
Advertising agency McCann Manchester has appointed Darren Minshall as people director.
Minshall joins from media production company Lime Pictures, where he was head of human resources and will head the firm’s HR department with a focus on talent management and growth over the next 12 months.
Law practice partners have witnessed average billable fees fall by nearly £1m a year over the course of the downturn, according to legal recruitment specialist Ambition.
Not for the first time, Gareth Jones’ article of 21 July (Recruiter, Bloggers with bite, ’It’s coming your way…’) brought up the myth of ’super-connected’ CEOs - that future group of board-level directors who know everybody in their peer group through effortless, ongoing monitoring of their LinkedIn, Twitter and Facebook accounts.
A radical overhaul in the way that university careers services work is needed, according to a report by think tank Demos.
The report recommends that university career firms should be turned into not-for profit recruitment consultancies – with no commission for careers service employees – specialising in finding work for graduates in businesses local to the institution.
The reported interest of US private equity group Blackstone in acquiring medical recruiter Pulse is a reflection of a strong appetite among private equity for firms in the staffing industry, according to a recruitment sector deal specialist.
The Financial Times reported last week that Blackstone is in talks to acquire Pulse from another private equity group HgCapital.
Interim management solutions provider Interim Partners has appointed Liz Sinclair as account director.
Sinclair, who was previously lead consultant for executive search firm Tyzack’s consumer division, has been appointed to head up Interim Partners’ KPMG account and is also responsible for placing interims across a variety of sectors.
