Solutions Driven, the Glasgow headquartered EMEA search firm, has opened a new office in the heart of the City of London.
The Leadenhall Street office will initially focus on financial services & IT, while increasing the company’s ability to service both existing and new clients in the London region and internationally.
Executive search firm The Caldwell Partners has appointed Michael Kelly as a partner in its life science and healthcare practice.
Kelly will be based in the firm’s Dallas office.
Management consulting firm Accenture expects to create 100 highly skilled jobs over the next four years through the opening of a research, development and innovation centre in Dublin, Ireland.
Media staffing specialist Lipton Fleming has appointed Mike Walmsley as non-executive director.
Walmsley was instrumental in growing international recruitment business Parker Bridge, where as managing director helped grow the company to more than100 staff in the UK, Australia and New Zealand.
International recruiter SThree has announced that chief operating officer Sunil Wickremeratne has stepped down from his role on the company’s board.
The board first announced Wickremeratne’s departure on 24 May this year.
Multi-sector recruiter Scantec Personnel has strengthened its team with four new consultant appointments.
Caroline Fraser and Hazel Caine join consultants to Scantec’s overseas division, while Scantec’s mechanical and piping trades division welcomes appointed Simon Kearns.
Meanwhile, Chris Williams has joined the firm’s project controls division as a recruitment consultant.
Multi-sector recruiter Twenty Recruitment Group is to open an office in New York.
The office, due to open early next year, will be led up by Nick Careless who has recently joined Twenty as director – North America.
Global executive search firm CTPartners has appointed Muna Awwadova as partner in its industrial practice.
Based in Dubai, Awwadova will serve clients across oil & gas, manufacturing, aviation, technology and pharmaceutical industries.
The war for talent in China is heating up, with local firms now competing for the best people, according to a legal recruiter.
John Lacey, managing director of Austin Knight Legal, whose company works in partnership with Antal International in China and Hong Kong, told Recruiter that local firms were now competing directly with global law firms such as Linklaters.
The Japanese jobs market is in a “very healthy” state, according to Christine Wright, managing director of Hays in Japan.
Wright’s comments follows an announcement that Hays is seeking experienced UK recruitment consultants to join its teams in Osaka and Tokyo, Japan.