www.theitjobboard.com promotes Alex Farrell to Managing Director

theitjobboard.com, has promoted Alex Farrell to managing director. A member of the team that founded the online recruitment specialist in 2002, Farrell was previously sales director and played an instrumental role in the company's substantial growth and expansion into mainland Europe. Her new role will see her continue to build on this success.

With thirteen years' experience in the IT recruitment sector, Farrell will focus on developing and enhancing the company's range of job boards, which include www.itjobsforgraduates.com, www.itjobsinthecity.com, www.thesapjobboard.com and www.itjobboard.be to ensure their offerings match the needs of candidates and clients. These responsibilities will see www.theitjobboard.com continue its drive to tackle the skills crisis in the IT sector, as well as strive to increase the diversity of IT workforces.

Previous initiatives launched by the company include practical guides on retaining staff and research into attitudes towards older IT professionals around the introduction of the Employment Equality (Age) Regulations 2006, which made it illegal for organisations to discriminate on the grounds of age.www.theitjobboard.com also campaigns to ensure employers understand why it is important that women work in the traditionally male-dominated IT workplace as well as how to attract them, for example by offering flexible working and childcare options.

Farrell comments:M y key responsibility as managing director will be to ensure www.theitjobboard.com retains its reputation as a leading player in the industry, at the same time as continuing its growth in mainland Europe.Our core role is clearly to match IT professionals that are job-hunting with organisations requiring IT staff, but we also believe our services should take a holistic approach.For example in the current climate when the supply-demand equation in the IT sector falls firmly in favour of the employee, we have focused on helping employers to attract and then retain staff, regardless of their age or gender.

Prior to founding www.theitjobboard.com, Farrell was business development director at leading IT search and selection consultancy Mercer Gray.In addition to handling full service recruitment campaigns for blue-chip companies, she was responsible for attracting new clients and generating a high level of repeat business.