Digby Morgan’s growing international presence and influence isn’t restricted to new offices, mergers and acquisitions. In some key territories, strategic relationships will be forged, developed and exploited and nowhere is this truer today than in the US.

Ed Coyle, the National Director at Human Resources International (www.hri.com), a fellow Vedior company in the US, takes up the story.

Here in the US, we are very excited about the huge opportunities that we feel are going to open up for all of us through this partnership with Digby Morgan both in Europe and, through its recent acquisition of HR Partners, in Australasia and the Far East.

HRi is the leading nationally recognised Human Resources search firm in the United States. We began as a contract/interim provider of recruiters from our Boston office in 1994. By 1998, we’d expanded our practice nationally to provide full-service HR staffing solutions to leading firms with needs for contract, contract-to-hire and permanent placement. Through the years we have grown our practice with offices in New York, Boston, Chicago, Washington, Houston, Dallas and Los Angeles. We are currently in the process of opening up Charlotte, North Carolina, and have our sights firmly set on San Francisco and Minneapolis in the near future.

In the US, interim recruiters at all levels with all specialisations continue to be in the greatest demand for our Contract Staffing Division. The talent shortage in the US continues to drive our clients to focus more manpower in the areas of recruitment and retention and doing so with contract labour allows them the flexibility to staff up and down as staffing levels fluctuate. Our Executive Search practice continues to work with HR professionals with expertise in all silos of HR, but generalists for senior management roles is our greatest area of expertise.

2007 has been a year in which we have grown our National Recruiting practice. This group specialises in working with Fortune clients in geographic regions where HRi does not have a physical presence. The National team has done a terrific job in expanding our footprint and allows us to proudly say that we can cover any area of the US.

We are looking forward to continuing to build a relationship with Vedior operating firms globally. There are so many obvious advantages to having global partners in the Human Resources placement business and each partnership increases the distance between us and the competition both in our core markets as well as collectively.

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