Engineering

Cobalt Recruitment appoints new UK managing director

Cobalt Recruitment has announced the appointment of Maria Sinclair as the new managing director of its UK operations.

Your recruitment business 25 April 2025

NEW TO THE MARKET: 14-18 APRIL 2025

This week’s new launches include: Busy Bee Recruitment, Deel

Supplier, Your business 14 April 2025

Cheshire-headquartered Gap Personnel acquired by Rcapital

Cheshire-headquartered recruitment agency Gap Personnel has been acquired by Rcapital in a corporate carve-out.

Your recruitment business 14 April 2025

FINANCIALS: Gattaca bucks trend in first half of 2025

Engineering and infrastructure recruiter Gattaca has reported a “robust” financial performance for the first half of 2025.

Financials, Your recruitment business 7 April 2025

Associated British Ports names Parr new group HRD

Associated British Ports (ABP), the UK’s largest port operator, has appointed Rachael Parr (pictured) as its new group HR director.

Your recruitment business 3 April 2025

Airswift expands board with two industry non-exec directors

Airswift, a global workforce solutions provider, has appointed Melody Meyer and Don Sloan as independent non-executive board members.

Your recruitment business 1 April 2025

Pertemps makes a splash recruiting for Northumbrian Water

UK-wide recruitment agency Pertemps has been awarded the managed service contract for Northumbrian Water.

Your business, Your recruitment business 28 March 2025

APPOINTMENTS: 10-14 MARCH 2025

This week’s appointments include: Acorn by Synergie, Benenden Health, Clarkson Owens, Compass Group UK & Ireland, Finity, Mitie

DEI, Supplier 14 March 2025

NEW TO THE MARKET: 10-14 MARCH 2025

This week’s new launches include: Cisco, Clarkson Owens, Remote, Schneider Electric

Supplier, Your business 14 March 2025

City Comment: Sue Dodd_3

The financial markets have been extremely volatile in recent weeks, well reflecting the party-pooping news being relayed by economists and central bankers. However, following several consecutive days of FTSE 100 decline described by Kean Marden in his Recruiter column two weeks ago, there eventually followed a partial recovery in global stock markets, driven upwards by hopes for the ‘Merkozy’ political alliance aimed at stabilising the Eurozone.
Analysis, Your recruitment business 28 March 2012

City Comment: Kean Marden_5

Drawing the short straw to write the City Column that covers the last two weeks of 2011 is a little like landing the graveyard slot on late night radio. It shouldn’t surprise any of you to hear that nothing of note occurred in the recruitment sector over Christmas and New Year.
Analysis, Your recruitment business 28 March 2012

City Comment: Sue Dodd_2

While financial markets around the world continue to balance the ongoing debt worries in the Eurozone against more positive news elsewhere, even including some better economic indicators in the US, the pause in decision making by businesses on a global scale is sending a chill into the GDP figures of several countries.
Analysis, Your recruitment business 28 March 2012

City Comment: Caroline de La Soujeole and Kevin Lapwood

For most investors in UK-listed recruiters, 2011 was an annus horribilis with the sector underperforming the wider market by close to 40% as sentiment towards highly cyclical stocks succumbed to an increasingly uncertain economic climate. Hays and Robert Walters were notable underperformers, down 47% in the year.
Analysis, Your recruitment business 28 March 2012

City Comment: Kean Marden_4

For many centuries, the ‘black dog’ has been used as a euphemism for depression, most famously by Sir Winston Churchill in the Second World War and Dr Samuel Johnson in the 1700s.
Analysis, Your recruitment business 28 March 2012

Clients tell recruiters what they really, really want

Despite the recruitment industry turning over billions of pounds, are agencies always meeting clients’ needs?
Your recruitment business 28 March 2012

INTERNATIONAL Australia: Mining automation does not mean job erosion

A report from consultancy firm BAEconomics says that “concerns about a reduction in employment in the mining industry as a result of automation are misplaced”.
Your recruitment business 28 March 2012

Contracts/Deals: CK Group recruitment partner for Almac

Science-based recruitment consultancy group CK Group has been appointed recruitment partner for sourcing scientific and technical staff throughout Europe with pharmaceutical development firm Almac on an initial three-year contract.
28 March 2012

INTERNATIONAL New Zealand: Earthquake re-build assessed

As reported by recruiter.co.uk last month, the aftermath from Christchurch’s earthquakes is expected to drive major recruitment needs, but certain factors are complicating the picture.
Companies, Your recruitment business 28 March 2012

INTERNATIONAL: Stanton Chase sees large rise in cross-border business

Executive search firm Stanton Chase reports a 47% increase in searches conducted between countries last year compared to the previous year.
28 March 2012

INTERNATIONAL US: Judge Group president passes away

William Gladstone, president of US technology and engineering staffing firm Judge, has died suddenly.
28 March 2012

INTERNATIONAL Appointments: Tan appointed new CEO at Headway Group

The current chief executive of the Headway Group, Klaus Wrezounik, will leave the Empresaria Group-owned German subsidiary as of 31 March, AIM-listed Empresaria has announced.
Your recruitment business, Companies 28 March 2012

INTERNATIONAL Asia-Pacific: Acorn group overseas expansion steps up

Recruitment and training firm Acorn Group is extending its a new overseas business focusing on mining, engineering and resources recruitment in Africa, Asia and Australia, currently operating out of bases in Perth and Singapore.
28 March 2012

UK & IRELAND Appointments: Zenith People adds to its training team

South Tyneside-based engineering and manufacturing recruiter Zenith People has appointed Lisa Waller as partnership development manager from NAC Group.
Your recruitment business 28 March 2012

Fircroft moves banking to HSBC to help global growth

Technical recruitment services provider Fircroft Engineering Services has positioned itself for further global growth by moving all its banking to HSBC’s Corporate Banking team in the North-West.
28 March 2012

Oil & gas recruiters set to share in North Sea Budget windfall

North Sea oil & gas tax breaks announced in this week’s Budget are great news for recruiters in the sector, say energy recruiters. And according to one, they could herald the return of Aberdeen’s golden age.
Your recruitment business 28 March 2012
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