• Bullhorn Ventures has awarded Staffing Future a strategic investment to accelerate growth and deliver its technology to more staffing firms. Staffing Future says its website and job board platform helps to streamline the hiring process, while providing a customised and “consumerised” experience. Bullhorn recently launched Bullhorn Ventures to invest in early-stage software companies with the potential to deliver unique value to third-party staffing and recruiting firms. Staffing Future says it intends to use the strategic investment to further its innovation of candidate acquisition and engagement technologies while increasing its footprint in Europe.

• Thomas Pocklington Trust (TPT) has launched a partnership with recruitment consultancy, Michael Page to help match live vacancies with blind and partially sighted jobseekers. The national charity, which supports blind and partially sighted people wanting to start, restart or progress their careers, will refer clients on its ‘Works For Me’ employment programme to the recruiter. The team at Michael Page will then work with the candidates to match them to available roles.