Company: Resource Solutions

The dubious joys of embedded recruiters

If you work for a financial services recruitment firm, the acronym ‘RPO’ is not likely to be pleasing to you. Standing for, ‘Recruitment Process Outsourcing,’ it refers to the so-called embedded recruiters placed within banks by other recruitment companies to manage their hiring process. Embedded recruiters go by names such as Alexander Mann Solutions, Resource [...]

By Sarah Butcher, 3 June 2010 • 11 comments

Alexander Mann hires from Stephens and Robet Walters

The firm said Horlock’s recruitment was part of an expansion of its financial services search practice following the opening of offices in Milan, Madrid, Frankfurt and Hong Kong, which it staffed last year with eight recruits from Stephens’ Asian office. Earlier this year Simon Vaughan-Edwards, deputy managing director of AMGM, was lured away from AMGM [...]

By anonymous, 10 December 2002 • 0 comments

Collapse in profits sparks debate on pay

Inside the banks the story has changed, too, and not just because almost everyone will have lower bonuses than last year. The collapse in the profitability of financial services firms has sparked vigorous debate about exactly what methods they should use to pay their staff. Jon Terry, a director of the global human resource solutions [...]

By anonymous, 7 January 2002 • 0 comments

Cresta expands resource solutions arm

The firm has appointed Ben Dear and Nick Kerrison as directors overseeing account development and the integration of the resource business into the group. They both join from Alexander Mann and will have responsibility also for growing the investment banking search business. Tom Buckett joins as a researcher from an equity sales background at ING [...]

By anonymous, 2 May 2001 • 0 comments