Cross-continent MoU could boost environmental health profession amid recruitment struggles

An agreement has been signed, which could help boost recruitment of environmental health officers (EHOs) globally.

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Take a Netwalk on the kind side

A walk organised by TEAM raised awareness of isolation, as well as money for charity.

7 May 2025

Analytics functions to merge into single workforce intelligence organisation

What will talent intelligence look like in the future?

7 May 2025
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Redefining the role of humans at work

Talent leaders are in the midst of redefining work that will be “more pro-human than in any other point in human history”.

7 May 2025
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Social recruiting: May/June 2025

Whether you’ve been trekking up a hill, making a team look brill, donating chocs to fill [a foodbank] or walking a mill-ion steps, you lot have been busy!

APPOINTMENTS: 5-9 MAY 2025

This week’s appointments include: Zellis

PeopleIT/Telecoms, HR 6 May 2025

CONTRACTS & DEALS: 5-9 MAY 2025

This week’s new contracts & deals include: Firmus Consulting

NEW TO THE MARKET: 5-9 MAY 2025

This week’s new launches include: Heidrick & Struggles, Matrix, ProdigyPB, Project Brains

The rise and rise of agentic AI adoption

Agentic AI adoption is expected to grow 327% by 2027 as HR leaders plan to redeploy a quarter of their workforce, according to new research by Salesforce.

Time for Apprentice Scarlett to get on her bike?

Week four on BBC’s The Apprentice is over – so did recruitment’s representative Scarlett Allen-Horton survive to fight another day?

Lighter Side 24 October 2019

Recruiters urged to make websites accessible to disabled candidates

Recruiters have been urged to make ‘reasonable adjustments’ to their websites to ensure they are accessible to disabled candidates.

Legislation 23 October 2019

Welsh pie maker looks to fill new roles in Caerphilly

A Welsh pie manufacturer is creating 110 new jobs.

Retail, Industrial/Manufacturing 23 October 2019

Don’t mumble when you get into a recruitment rumble with the WWE

Whatcha gonna do when the WWE comes calling to fill a new role of communications co-ordinator for the UK?

Recruiters should be wary about snooping through staff emails

Recruiters have been urged to have effective communications at work policies in place to guard against breaching staff privacy or data protection rights.

22 October 2019

FINANCIALS: Randstad reports small rise in profits

Recruitment giant Randstad has reported a slight increase in gross profit year-on-year, according to results for Q3 2019.

Financials 22 October 2019

Onecom creates 100+ telecoms jobs across the UK

A business telecommunications provider has launched a recruitment drive to add 125 new staff to its business, increasing its headcount across the UK by around 30%.

IT/Telecoms 22 October 2019

Get paid for Halloween trick? Creepy clowns need only apply

Is your favourite Halloween costume the Joker or Pennywise, where you scare the living daylights out of your colleagues?

APPOINTMENTS: 21-25 OCTOBER 2019

This week’s appointments include: Airswift, Bullhorn, Carestaff Solutions, Heidrick Consulting, Korn Ferry, Nexxt, Projectus Consulting, Taranata Group

Boris Johnson’s new deal good news for hiring EU nationals, say lawyers

Passing Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s new deal with the European Union would be good news for UK recruiters hiring EU nationals over the next year, say employment lawyers.

21 October 2019

Freelance blockchain firm Nodal Labs goes under

Nodal Labs, a blockchain-powered freelance marketplace and start-up, has entered administration.

21 October 2019

Royal Navy uses VR gaming technology to recruit submariners

The Royal Navy has launched a new campaign to recruit 250 submariners by the end of next year at a video games event last week.

FINANCIALS: ManpowerGroup sees fall in revenues

Recruitment giant ManpowerGroup has seen revenues drop 3% year-on-year, according to results for the three months to 30 September 2019.

Financials 21 October 2019

CONTRACTS & DEALS: 21-25 OCTOBER 2019

This week’s contracts and deals include: Abodoo, Apps IT, Back2businessship, Coople, Friisberg & Partners International, Hortor, Hudson Freelance, Odgers Interim, Sirenum

NEW TO THE MARKET: 21-25 OCTOBER 2019

This week’s launches include: Bullhorn, Candidate.ID, clockworkTalent, Empact Ventures, Hays, HRS, Limber, Rocket Staffing Group

Pick-up in market depends on MPs’ approval for EU Brexit deal

Recruiters and industry trade bodies have welcomed yesterday’s deal between the UK and EU as providing more certainty.

18 October 2019
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