Mansfield & Associates Ltd., an executive search firm, appointed Jay Sjostrom as vice president of its Minneapolis office. Sjostrom has worked in executive search since 1998.

The Training Associates, a Westborough, Mass.-based staffing firm that specializes in providing trainer staffing, hired Joanne Scamurra as a project manager. Scamurra was previously co-founder and president of Desktop Paging Software Inc. in Nashua, N.H.