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Firms are increasingly hiring people based on ‘trusted’
recommendations, but New Frontiers’ Julia Feuell
warns about this method from her own experience
Colin Currie and Davina Clarkson
Be wary when hiring
People on the Move
– they could be a spy
Colin Currie (pictured) has been recruited as
national sales manager at Travel TV. Currie was
formerly head of sales at On Holiday Group. USING a professional recruitment agency might wanted to have a chat about our systems and
He brings 15 years’ retail and operator experience, be the more obvious way to hire staff; they offer procedures, I’d have gladly swapped notes
with time spent at Airtours and DFDS Seaways. the added advantage of vetting candidates in with her. However, it is a warning to the rest
accordance with employment law, and will follow of travel which, by it’s very nature, is a highly
Alpharooms.com has taken on Davina Clarkson up references. trusting industry.
(pictured) as call centre sales manager, based in However, an increasingly popular – and trust- While the incident demonstrated the effective-
Sheffield. Clarkson moves from The Co-operative ing – method, is via friendly recommendations: ness of our tracking systems, it also encouraged
Travel in Rotheram where she was branch like when your aunt from Australia says us to review any improvements we could make.
manager. that her next door neighbour has a lovely In short, employers must not wait for
daughter who would like to do some summer something to happen to their organisation but
Travel search engine Kayak.com has appointed temping work. regularly review the security measures in place.
Gareth Walton as senior sales manager for the Recently, a vacancy to cover holiday leave Consider having confidentiality documents for
UK and Europe. He joins the London-based team, cropped up in our admin department. Trusting all staff to sign, including temps. You should also
bringing with him more than 10 years’ experience this recommendation, I instantly suggested the properly monitor everyone in your organisation
from online search and travel companies. lovely daughter to fill the post. But within just – not just new people. And when you do take
two days of her starting, our systems alerted us on a new member of staff, always ensure you,
Leanne Havill has joined Lime, a UK-based to her trawling through our intranet and or the recruitment
exclusive trade sales agent for British Airways, attempting to send company information to her that agency you’re
as business development manager. mother, complete with email messages such as “Is using, checks the
this enough?”. basics, including
Whitbread has made managing director Patrick She was, of course, immediately frogmarched their identity,
Dempsey an executive director. Dempsey joined off the premises. their right to
Whitbread in 2004, having spent 20 years at Forte. The irony is that the information she was work and their
sending was not sensitive data, and if Carol had work references.
Douglas Acton has joined Von Essen hotels as
director of sales for the collection’s new hotel Julia Feuell is managing director at New Frontiers
in Battersea, due to open this summer. recruitment agency. newfrontiers.co.uk
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