Morgan McKinley is an internationally active professional services employment agency with headquarters in Cork, Ireland. The company currently employs 500 staff in 10 countries.
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History
Morgan McKinley was founded in the UK in 1995 as a banking & financial services recruitment consultancy. In 2008 The Premier Group, a recruitment company founded in Ireland in 1988, acquired the business for €60 million and rebranded all of its Irish and international recruitment operations as Morgan McKinley.
In 2009 Irish Taoiseach Enda Kenny opened Morgan McKinley’s Shanghai office. The company currently has offices in 19 locations in Europe, the Middle East and Asia-Pacific.
Recruitment monitoring
In Ireland it publishes the Irish Employment Monitor, which tracks employment trends in the Republic of Ireland, while its London Employment Monitor is quoted as an indicator of the jobs market in the City of London. Morgan McKinley’s employment and salary surveys are also reported in global and local business media.
Morgan McKinley’s recruitment market research and statistics are frequently quoted in the media. In particular, the Employment Monitor has been quoted in Bloomberg, The Irish Independent, BBC News, and Gulf Business. The company’s figures are often used to confirm the state of job markets or specific sectors within it.