• Beatrice Bartlay, business coach and founder of staffing agency 2B Interface, has launched a series of seminars to mentor the next wave of entrepreneurs.

Bartlay is offering four seminar programmes to help recruitment entrepreneurs achieve goals and become self-confident. The programmes are: ‘Work smart, not hard’, ‘The alchemy of financial freedom’, ‘Liberty: women mean business’ and ‘The gold winning team’.

• The Association of Professional Staffing Companies (APSCo) and the National Association of Head Teachers (NAHT) have revealed new guidance for each body’s members around teacher recruitment.

NAHT members will be offered guidance on working with teacher supply and recruitment companies, and will be introduced to APSCo’s new Code of Conduct for its education recruiter members. The code, sets out how professional recruitment consultancies will conduct themselves and what schools and academies can expect from APSCo members.

• Recruitment and marketing analytics platform ClickIQ has launched. The platform aims to intelligently improve campaign performance whilereducing spend by up to 40% by using big data analytics and machine learning to analyse response patterns to pay-for-performance recruitment ads, against budget use, media placement, role and location.

The platform uses this data to automatically place bids in direct proportion to the likelihood of success, with the aim of ensuring its customers do not overspend on easy to fill roles or underspend on hard to fill positions.

• Teacher job board Eteach.com has opened an office in Stevenage. The company said the move is in responding to the “urgent” demand for permanent teaching staff in the East of England area.

• Midlands-based recruiter Encore Personnel is launching a specialist driving division at its Derby branch. The Derby team will be recruiting both qualified and aspiring drivers across the Midlands region and will be led by branch manager Dave Walter.

Elsewhere, Encore is introducing a new service aimed at recruiting more senior roles for its supply chain and logistics clients. The new division will predominantly be based in Encore’s Birmingham office, but will also support the firm’s other nine offices across the Midlands, Yorkshire and the South.

• Nationwide recruiter Gi Group UK has opened a new office in Warrington. Gi Group Warrington, formerly based at Dolmans Lane, has moved its business to The Lodge on Tanners Lane, Warrington.

The branch will feature the company’s new branding and signage and will be led by branch manager David Toller.