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IT and telecoms recruiter OCC Recruitment has appointed three new divisional heads.

Helping agency recruiters deal with the business realities of the post-recession era is the theme of the upcoming APSCo members’ conference ‘Brave New World’.

Accountancy, insurance and legal recruiter Heat Recruitment has appointed four new consultants.Damien Kelland and Gaby Thomas will recruit for financial services, while Will Langdon joins the firm’s accountancy and finance division. Ross Bennett joins the insurance and legal team.  

Creative, media and digital recruitment specialist MacPeople has appointed Chris Ward as a consultant.Ward has joined the firm’s London office for a month, before he heads out to work in MacPeople’s Sydney office permanently.Meanwhile, Will O’Neill has joined as a permanent consultant.

Safe Computing, a provider of software and outsourcing services, has appointed Ian Vickers as applications consultant.Vickers joins the firm’s professional services department.

International recruitment and executive search firm VMA GroupEurope has appointed Els Brands as a senior consultant in Brussels.Brands, who has held product marketing roles with food company Dr. Oetker in the Netherlands and Belgium, will be responsible for recruiting marketing and communications professionals across all industry sectors. She has spent the last three years in executive recruitment.

The supertax on banks has not resulted in a much-feared exodus of financial services talent abroad, according to Richard Hoar, director at financial recruiter Goodman Masson.

An increased focus on cost controls has created increased demand for purchasing managers, according to Pat Law, managing director of Hays Procurement.

Global recruiter Hays has seen profits fall but is currently seeing return to growth driven by its international business, according to its preliminary results for the year ended 30 June 2010.

Global executive search firm Spencer Stuart has successfully carried out several top media placements, according to the Association of Executive Search Consultants.

International recruiter Kelly Services has appointed Sally Cleary as head of business development for the UK and Ireland.Cleary will be responsible for expanding permanent and temporary divisions in science, engineering, IT and education.

Legal recruiter BCL Legal has appointed Paul Warburton as a consultant.Warbuton, previously a solicitor with Nexus Solicitors, will place legal professional at all levels across both corporate and commercial disciplines in Manchester.Meanwhile, law graduate Satnaam Kaur also joins as a consultant recruiting of solicitors and paralegals across Yorkshire as well as Lincolnshire and Humberside.  

International creative, digital and marketing recruitment specialist Nakama has appointed Julia Falcone as director of its Melbourne operation.Falcone has more than 10 years of experience in creative and digital recruitment in Australia and was previously with creative staffing specialist Aquent.

Embracing continuous career development through more proactive talent management tops a list of recommendations for advertising agencies in a report from the Institute of Practitioners in Advertising.

Online recruitment specialist Changeworknow has agreed a partnership with pizza restaurant chain PizzaExpress to develop a recruitment solution.

More than one in three organisations plan to hire in excess of 100 employees this year, according to a global survey.

Recruiters are being urged to get up to speed with the Committee of Advertising Practice (CAP) codes of regulations, ahead of the Advertising Standards Authority’s remit for regulating digital marketing extension from March next year.

A potential ban on BlackBerry will spell trouble for recruiters if such a ban were to eventually include other forms of mobile communication, according to Laurel Wise, managing consultant at HR Digby Morgan’s Dubai operation.

Two in three UK businesses fail to use coaching to directly tackle corporate objectives, according to research from Hays Senior Finance and coaching firm LeaderShape.

Recruiter has obtained a list of recruitment firms that have been appointed to the government’s Buying Solutions Non-Permanent Staff (NPS) framework.The full list is in the attached pdf to the right.