Recruitment International News

APSCo has passed its first ISO quality audit with flying colours resulting in an ISO9001 certification.



“We’re obviously delighted - this is an important step for us and is line with our stated objective of ensuring that the APSCo brand is perceived as synonymous with integrity, quality and expertise,” said Ann Swain, Chief Executive. “As APSCo continues to grow, our internal processes need to be efficient to allow us to provide the very best service for our members. The process of working towards the certification has been valuable in itself as it has allowed us to identify areas for improvement which will help us and our members.

Scottish Premier League side, Inverness Caledonian Thistle Football Club has announced the extension of its current shirt sponsorship deal with a leading Scottish manpower provider, worth a five-figure sum.

Orion Group, which is headquartered in Inverness, announced the deal with the SPL Highland Club on Thursday 2nd of February in the run-up to the much anticipated Scottish Cup 5th round tie against Celtic Football Club, this weekend (Saturday 4th February). Orion Group has sponsored the Club since season 2010/11.

The Board of Healthcare Locums plc, a leading provider of staffing solutions in the health and social care sectors, is pleased to announce the appointment of Sue Bygrave, 46, as Chief Finance Officer (Designate), succeeding Bill Jessup, Interim Chief Finance Officer who will step down on publication of the financial accounts for the year ended 31 December 2011. Sue will formally take up her role as an Executive Director on the Board of HCL on 6 February 2012 and will assume responsibility for all accounting activity across the Group including operations in Australia.

Heidrick & Struggles International, Inc. (Nasdaq:HSII), the leadership advisory firm providing executive search and leadership consulting services worldwide, today announced that its Board of Directors has declared a quarterly cash dividend of $0.13 per share. The dividend is payable on February 17, 2012 to shareholders of record at the close of business on February 3, 2012.

Experienced global HR Director, Peter Twemlow, has joined Independent as Managing Director of its HR consultancy division. Peter will be working with Director Harry Dunlevy to drive growth in this area of the business and continue building Independent’s burgeoning Executive Search function.

With 25 years’ business and HR experience, Peter’s previous role was Global Vice President Human Resources at Johnson Controls Automotive, a $9bn global technology company. As a member of the Global Leadership team, his remit included organisational design & development, new business acquisition and integration, restructuring and cost optimisation.

The Association of Recruitment Consultancies (ARC) is delighted to announce that Star Medical has joined its growing membership.



Lucy O'Neill, Managing Director, comments: "We're really excited to be working with ARC; the industry we recruit in is very challenging, extremely competitive, and constantly evolving, so it's really important that we're working to the highest possible standards too. We know that working with ARC will help strengthen our processes, broaden our knowledge, provide expert support as needed, and critically, help us maintain a competitive edge. We completely trust their judgment and look forward to working together on ideas that will help us deliver a best in class service and make our customers even happier."

DMJ Recruitmenthas launched its newest division, DMJ Exec, which is the UK’s first dedicated company secretarial executive search agency. DMJ recruitment is an established name in the legal and company secretarial markets, placing company secretaries at all levels into quoted and private companies, professional services and the banking and finance sectors.

Genesis Housing Association, one of the largest social landlords in London has signed a three year contract with managed service specialists Resourcing Group, part of Human Capital Investment Group.



The contract, which was signed by both parties on Wednesday 25 January, will be the start of a pioneering partnership between the two organisations, and will see Resourcing Group deliver end-to-end (is there simpler way to say end to end recruitment?) recruitment across all temporary and permanent vacancies.

Executive search firm, Exige International, has expanded its business offering to Switzerland with the opening of a new office in Zug and a full license to recruit permanent placements.

The opening of the new office follows a year of major growth for Exige International, where 2011 saw the company expand into the audit, technology and insurance areas of the Swiss market. To drive the expansion in Switzerland forward, the specialist boutique firm has appointed Michael Shrum as business development director.

Talented HR professionals are still in demand and Digby Morgan, the leading specialist HR search and selection consultancy, continues to build its team to help meet this requirement with a burst of hiring activity in the company’s London office across several of its teams.

CTPartners Executive Search Inc., (AMEX:CTP), a leading global retained executive search firm, today announced that it has acquired CTPartners Latin America Inc., its independently-owned licensee that has been operating as CTPartners in Latin America for the past five years. A total of 16 partners currently operate from offices in Bogota, Caracas, Lima, Mexico City, Panama, Santiago and São Paulo.

Kelly Services, Inc. (NASDAQ: KELYA) (NASDAQ: KELYB), a leader in providing workforce solutions, today announced results for the fourth quarter and full year 2011.

Carl T. Camden, President and Chief Executive Officer, announced revenue for the fourth quarter of 2011 totaled $1.4 billion, a 5% increase compared to the corresponding quarter in 2010. Revenue for the full year totaled $5.6 billion, a 12% increase compared to the prior year.

Net earnings for the fourth quarter of 2011 totaled $24.1 million, compared to $14.6 million reported for the fourth quarter of 2010.

Following Immigration Minister Damian Green's speech on increased 'selectivity' for immigration policy, the REC has expressed concerns about the impact on economic growth.



Gillian Econopouly Head of Public Policy, who attended the speech, comments:



“The Government keeps saying that the UK is open for business, yet some of the sectors targeted by the Government as high growth and with huge export potential are struggling to bring in the talented people they need.

2012 prospects: very good activity level



Continuing growth in the 4th quarter of 2011

For 2011, SYNERGIE announces a record turnover of €1,441.4 million, an

increase of 16.9% (+15.7% on a like-for-like basis), thereby reaching its growth

objective.

Summary



* The boards of NGH Topco Limited and Network Group Holdings PLC announce

that they have reached agreement on the terms of a recommended cash offer,

with a share alternative, for the whole of the issued and to be issued

share capital of Network.



* Under the terms of the Offer, Network Shareholders will be entitled to

receive 26 pence per Network Share in cash. As an alternative, for every

Network Share, Network Shareholders will be entitled to elect to receive

0.26 A ordinary shares of £0.01 each in NGH Topco Limited. On this basis,

the terms of the Offer value the existing issued share capital of Network

at approximately £19.6 million.



* The Offer Price represents a premium of approximately 40.5 per cent. to the

Closing Price of a Network Share of 18.5 pence on the last dealing day

prior to the release of this announcement.

cph, the leading specialist provider of in-sourced direct recruitment solutions, has appointed Nigel Bromley as a Non-Executive Director.

Jeff Joerres, Chairman and CEO, Chairs Group to Deliver Jobs Growth Recommendations to G20 Leaders

Jeffrey A. Joerres, ManpowerGroup, (NYSE: MAN) Chairman and CEO, chaired a robust "track" of discussions on business as a driving force for employment at the 2012 World Economic Forum (WEF) Annual Meeting in Davos, Switzerland. Joerres is chairing the B20 Task Force on Employment, which will culminate in delivering recommendations for focused actions to inspire sustainable employment creation to the G20 group of nations at the G20 Summit in Mexico in June.

In fiscal year 2011 the Amadeus FiRe group exceeded the very good results of the previous year. In 2011 consolidated sales came to EUR 130.1m, an increase of 11.9% on prior year’s revenue (EUR 116.2m). The increase in sales was primarily caused by the temporary staffing and the permanent placement service lines. Sales in training were slightly above prior year. Sales in interim- / project management were below prior year; however the gross profit achieved increased.

Staffgroup becomes parent company to three distinct recruitment brands specialising in technology, finance and energy sectors



Eurostaff previously provided specialist recruitment solutions to the technology, finance and energy industries under one banner, but today announces the incorporation of Staffgroup Limited and Earthstaff Limited. The firm is transitioning to being a major player in the global recruitment market and now comprises three distinct business units – Eurostaff Finance, Eurostaff Technology and Earthstaff with Staffgroup as the parent company – each with its own executive management team, dedicated recruiters and supported by a new dedicated online, mobile and social media presence.

Graduate IT salaries have fallen by 3.4% reports CV Screen, with the average salary for a technology graduate now standing at £23,197.


The specialist IT RecruitmentAgency monitored over 600 advertised positions for IT graduates and compared it to their findings from January 2011.


Matthew Iveson, Director of CV Screen commented “2011 was a tough year for graduates looking to break in to industry and this has been reflected by the fall in salaries on offer.”

A larger percentage of the workforce are accessing Employee Assistance Programmes (EAP) than they were four years ago, Right Management’s annual Clinical Director report reveals.

In the last year, 30,000 employees accessed Right Management’s EAP service for help, an increase from 4.36% to 5.37% in percentage use of the services in 2011.

Kevin Friery, Clinical Director of Right Management, says: “The workplace is experiencing one of its greatest ever periods of pressure. The economic changes of the last two or three years have created instability, uncertainty and insecurity; at the same time, employers need to achieve a high level of performance, productivity and engagement and with a need to deliver more with less. The more effective way of addressing this is to build resilience, support wellness initiatives and promote alignment and engagement amongst employees.”

Legal recruiter Laurence Simons has appointed Guy Adams as Lead Director of their European Private Practice team. Adams will report into Lucinda Moule, Managing Director of Laurence Simons (EMEA), and will focus on the growth of Laurence Simons’ operations in the European Private Practice market, as well as joining the business’ UK Partner team.



Previously Guy worked as a Tax lawyer with Norton Rose, McGrigors and latterly Reynolds Porter Chamberlain, where he assisted in the growth of the firm’s Tax Litigation practice. Adams subsequently spent 3 years with Taylor Root, managing the company’s London-based International recruitment team, before joining Carmichael Fisher to establish their European Legal Practice. Adams brings experience of having recruited partners and teams across continental Europe, the CIS/CEE region and various offshore jurisdictions.

With many businesses still finding trading tough, BCL Legal - one of the leading legal recruitment consultancies outside London – is bucking the trend after announcing it placed a record number of candidates in 2011. The firm, which has offices in Manchester, Leeds, Birmingham, Liverpool, Reading and Bristol, placed a total of 430 legal professionals last year across its network – a rise of 18% on 2010.

This news is further bolstered by the firm smashing another record after it received a total of 562 registrations from candidates in January 2012. The figure equates to a 22% rise year on year. BCL Legal employs 32 staff and specialises in the placement of lawyers at all levels from paralegal to partner within the private practice and in-house sectors on both a permanent and temporary basis.

The 22nd annual XpertHR survey of graduate recruitment strikes a small note of optimism for the 2011/12 hiring round, despite the fact that employers are still finding it hard to attract high-quality recruits.

Our research indicates that employers are positive about their future graduate recruitment intentions. The findings, based on feedback from 182 employers, show that 75.8% of organisations are currently trying to recruit graduates. An even higher proportion (88.5%) forecast that they will do so in the future.

Across a collective workforce of more than one million, 133 employers said they would take on 164 graduate recruits in the 2011/12 recruitment round. This equates to an average of 31.1 graduates per organisation.

Rachel Snuff, XpertHR author of the report said: “Before the onset of the recession in the UK in 2008, there was generally a healthy balance between the supply of, and demand for, graduates in the labour market.

“Since 2008, that balance has been skewed heavily in favour of supply, with employer demand for graduate recruits having weakened across most sectors of the economy.”

Adecco Group’s Unlocking Britain’s Potential campaign calls for shift in focus from the Boardroom gender debate to broader social mobility issues



Almost half (47 per cent) of UK workers think that employers’ diversity programmes are only designed to attract good PR, according to research from Adecco Group’s Unlocking Britain’s Potential campaign. Adecco Group is now calling on the Government, businesses and other stakeholders for a radical reassessment of workplace diversity, as part of its major initiative to realise the full potential of the UK workforce and enable the UK to compete effectively in world markets.