Shilton Sharpe Quarry (“SSQ”), the specialist international legal recruitment consultancy with offices in the UK, Germany, Italy, Spain, Australia and an associated office in New Zealand, has been ranked number 45 in the latest annual Sunday Times Virgin Fast Track 100 league table published this week.  Fast Track 100 ranks Britain’s 100 private companies with the fastest growing sales over the last three years. This achievement comes shortly after being ranked fourth in the Recruiter Magazine’s Hot 100 2008 Report published in October 2008. This report analyses the recruitment consultancies that are best at maximising their effectiveness and productivity. These combined achievements make SSQ one of the fastest growing and most successful recruitment intermediaries in the legal sector. SSQ is also launching an office in Paris to serve the legal market across France. The office will be led by Melanie Tremblay who has several years of experience in the French legal recruitment market recruiting on behalf of law firms, companies and banks. Additionally, SSQ is looking to expand its influence across the Atlantic by signing a deal to form a unique joint venture in the U.S. with Mestel & Company.  Headquartered in New York, Mestel & Company operates out of eight other major U.S. cities offering in-house, contract and permanent recruitment services to the American Lawyer 100 firms and to the Fortune 500. Gavin Sharpe, SSQ Director, said: “We are thrilled that our success has been recognised by the Sunday Times Fast Track 100 league table and the Recruiter Magazine’s Hot 100 and we look forward to continuing this success throughout 2009.  We are also very excited about bringing SSQ into the French market.  Our wide coverage across continental Europe and our unique alliance in the U.S. positions SSQ well for continued success.” SSQ has pioneered the use of psychometric assessments within the legal recruitment sector, video technology for video CVs and corporate videos and also operates a groundbreaking candidate extranet. Additionally SSQ has a strategic alliance with Holst, European distributor of The McQuaig System™ of psychometric assessments and related human capital tools.]]>