OCTOBER 2017 | 43
Recruitment
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BUILT ENVIRONMENT
EXPERTS ON TRACK
Peace Recruitment is aiming
to be the UK recruitment agency
of choice for the built environ-
ment by 2020.
The business has appointed
recruitment specialist Kai Mc-
Cabe Murray as a non-executive
director.
Kai is a highly experienced
entrepreneur and veteran of
the recruitment industry having
been involved in the sector since
1987. As managing director of the
Search recruitment consultancy
she built the business to £120m
turnover, employing 600 people
across 14 offices in the UK.
Kai said: “Chris Peace has done
a phenomenal job in growing the
business from a one-man band to
a significant consultancy which
employs 18 consultants and will
create revenues of £8m in this
financial year. He is now ready to
scale up the company.
“The focus will remain on
specialising in the building and
construction sectors but we are
looking at the possibility of open-
ing new offices across the UK.”
Peace has just launched its new
bespoke website, which includes
the first ‘Trip Advisor-like service
for the recruitment industry’, and
the first JobCast service. The busi-
ness aims to reach its goal of 30
consultants by 2020.
www.peacerecruitment.co.uk
CONSTRUCTION
FALLS BEHIND ON
GENDER DIVERSITY
A report has found that pro-
gress on gender diversity in senior
roles has regressed, particularly in
construction.
Women Count 2017, the second
annual report by the Pipeline -
which delivers leadership pro-
grammes - tracked and analysed
the number of women on Exec-
utive Committees of FTSE 350
companies.
With only 16% of members on
Executive Committees being wom-
en, the same percentage as 2016,
no progress had been made. Also,
more companies had no women
on their Executive committees
and no women executives holding
roles with profit and loss (P&L)
responsibility than in 2016.
The Pipeline looked at construc-
tion companies in the FTSE 350
and found there was much work
to be done:
• Just 6% of construction com-
panies in the FTSE 350 have
Executive Committees which
are at least 25% female, which
is nineteen points below the
average.
• Construction companies are
below average in the propor-
tion of women executives that
operate in P&L roles (27%
compared to 35% across the
FTSE 350).
• The construction sector is
slightly above average in terms
of women executives that sit on
main plc boards (22% compared
to 16% across the FTSE 350)
Commenting on the findings,
Donald Brydon, chairman of the
London Stock Exchange Group
said:
companies will
‘ have
to do more ’
“Women Count 2017 continues
to confirm that FTSE 350 compa-
nies with 25% or more women
on their Executive Committees
perform better financially. It is
therefore concerning that the per-
centage of women on Executive
Committees has stagnated at 16%
for the second year. It is clear that
companies will have to do more
systematically to meet the govern-
ment’s target of 33% by 2020.”