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Stuart Gentle Publisher at Onrec

New recruitment group head at Telegraph group limited

Appointment

Steve Playford has been promoted to Recruitment Group Head at Telegraph Group Limited, following a restructure of its Classified Advertising department.

Steve has responsibility for recruitment advertising for The Daily Telegraph, The Sunday Telegraph and jobs.telegraph.co.uk. He oversees a 17-strong team.

Steve has worked at Telegraph Group Limited for more than 10 years, joining in 1993 as a telesales executive. Since then he has been a field sales representative for both recruitment and motoring. Prior to his new position, Steve was motoring manager for five years.

Commenting on his promotion, Steve said: ìI am delighted to be joining the recruitment team at such an exciting time. Business 2 Jobs has gone from strength to strength and our new single vacancy rate has opened the door to many new advertisers who have successfully filled positions with us.

ìWe have also established ourselves as the marketplace for all senior positions and coupled with the upturn in the industry I am looking forward to a very prosperous future for our range of products.î