Digby Morgan continues to expand and several new faces can be seen in the company’s offices as it adds experienced senior consultants and a new, autumn intake to its graduate recruitment programme.

Digby Morgan has made a couple of senior and strategic appointments in its Commerce and Public Sector teams. Bringing more than 15 years of recruitment experience with her, Kate Mulhall has joined the company from Hays Executive where she spent the last four years focused on executive search assignments for senior HR professionals in the public sector. Prior to joining Hays, Kate spent the previous decade with Michael Page where, latterly, she managed the strategy and consultancy team focused on change and organisational development professionals.

“I’m thrilled to be joining Digby Morgan at this exciting period in the company’s growth,” commented Kate, “and am looking forward to helping further establish the company’s profile as the premier recruiter of HR professionals in the UK public sector.”

A second senior consultant has also joined Digby Morgan’s commerce team. A graduate of the University of Birmingham, Isobel Campbell is another ex-Hays employee having spent the last ten years with the company. She started her career with Hays in the Birmingham office before moving to central London where she concentrated on both large corporate and SME clients in the commercial and financial services sector. At Digby Morgan, Isobel will be focused on servicing clients’ HR staffing requirements across several commercial and industrial areas with a specific focus on the FMCG and telecommunications sectors.

Commenting on her appointment at Digby Morgan, Isobel said: “Having worked in the recruitment industry for some years, I’ve been more than aware of the leading position held by Digby Morgan within the HR sector. Its longevity and continuing success is hugely impressive and I’m delighted to be joining the company and look forward to helping take the company forward in the next phase of its growth.”

Nicola Grimshaw, Digby Morgan’s director running the Commerce and Public Sector teams, added: "Kate and Isobel are joining us at a very exciting time in our development. Despite much media speculation to the contrary, 2008 continues to be extremely busy with many clients working on expanding their HR teams. This demand means that we’re looking at another record year and we’re delighted to welcome Kate and Isobel to the team at this time. Their specific experience will be a real asset and we’re fully expecting to exploit their extensive experience to boost our profile still further.”

Several new faces have also recently joined the company’s graduate recruitment programme which continues to go from strength to strength.

Charlotte Bell read Psychology with Sociology at Roehampton University where she was a keen rower and club captain. Looking for structure and commercial experience in her first job, Charlotte had been pointed in the direction of HR and recruitment and subsequently applied to attend the Digby Morgan Graduate Assessment Day.

“My initial reaction at the Assessment Day was wow,” said Charlotte, “and my impressive feelings were reinforced when I met the whole team afterwards. I had been to a few assessment days but none had been so structured, positive and honest. Digby Morgan ticked all the right boxes and I feel that my ambition for progression and success is fully supported by the whole company.”

Adam Fullwood studied Geography at Loughborough University. “I was looking for a career,” commented Adam, “that would constantly challenge me to achieve. Having played sport to a pretty high level at university, that’s something that’s important to me. I thoroughly enjoyed being a part of strong teams at University and wanted my new role to be based in a team that relied on constant interaction. I was also looking for a dynamic role that offered diversity and a constantly changing and challenging environment and HR recruitment would seem to fit the bill.”

Kate Blunt read History at the University of Newcastle Upon Tyne but, knew that she didn’t want to be a historian and that a career in sales would be more challenging and rewarding.

“I had been successful working part time in sales during my time at university,” Kate said, “and thrive in a target-driven environment. After researching potential career paths, I decided that recruitment would be the ideal option as it combined my passion for sales, people contact and relationship building. I initially joined a recruitment consultancy specialising in the IT and investment banking sector and, although I loved recruitment, I felt my personality was not suited to the IT industry and that HR would be a much more interesting area to work in. I’m thoroughly enjoying it and have found, for instance, that successfully matching a candidate's personality to the culture of an organisation gives me great satisfaction.

Flora Summerfield graduated from Edinburgh University with a degree in Biomedical Sciences but, after much investigation into the fields of pharmaceutical research and sales, decided that although she’d thoroughly enjoyed her degree course, she didn’t want to make it a career. Recruitment had been mentioned on more than one occasion and, having researched the options, the graduate recruitment programme at Digby Morgan was recommended to her.

“The entire application with Digby Morgan was straight forward and incredibly friendly,” Flora said, “and, although I had applied to several other recruitment agencies, by the end of the assessment day I knew that this was where I wanted to work. The inherent friendliness and happiness of all the employees I met combined with the company’s excellent reputation made me very keen to join the team. The fact that it deals exclusively with the HR industry means that the scope for speciality within the discipline is high and the broad base of high calibre clients that Digby Morgan has will hopefully allow me to develop a wide commercial awareness.”

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