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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.

Skill-based hiring can have ugly consequences – what can go wrong?

Skill-based hiring (SBH) is a hiring strategy that focuses on recruiting and selecting candidates based primarily on their demonstrated ability to perform each skill required for the position.

HR 2 May 2025

O’Connell joins Cielo from Sourceright

Talent consulting and recruitment process outsourcing (RPO) organisation Cielo today announced that Seb O’Connell will join its global executive team as managing director, Europe.
5 February 2015

FCSA ‘furious’ over omission from HMRC consultation respondents list

Julia Kermode, chief executive of the Freelancers & Contractor Services Association, is “furious” over the body’s omission from a list of respondents to an HM Revenues & Customs consultation on record-keeping requirements for recruiters making submissions to the tax authority.
5 February 2015

Aldi to use career portal to fill 450 store manager posts

Supermarket chain Aldi is to turn to its career portal to fill around 450 store manager posts in 2015.
5 February 2015

Filipino recruiter barred following 38 complaints

Recruitment without job orders, collection of excessive fees and failure to give appropriate receipts are among the reasons a Filipino recruiter has been temporarily barred from operating.
5 February 2015

Changes in Morrisons’ HR team

Jill Maples joins supermarket chain Morrisons’ HR team as HR director – central.
HR 4 February 2015

Two further companies set to launch older worker apprenticeships in 2015

Barclays will not be the only organisation launching apprenticeship campaigns for people aged over 50 this year, according to older workers’ champion Ros Altmann.
4 February 2015

Report: Engineering firms should upskill current workforce rather than recruit

UK engineers are not being developed to their full potential as the current workforce is overlooked in favour of attracting the next generation to plug skills gaps.
Engineering 4 February 2015

Derby UTC joins Royal Navy scheme to boost engineering skills

Derby’s University Technical College (UTC) is the latest UTC to join a Royal Navy scheme to develop engineering and technical skills in its students.
IT/Telecoms, Engineering 4 February 2015

HMRC reduces amount of information required on contractors

The information recruitment firms will now need to include on contractors employed via umbrella companies in new quarterly returns to HM Revenues & Customs (HMRC) has been reduced to contractor details on identity, rather than payment.
4 February 2015

Singapore recruiters not worried about slowdown in job creation

Singapore recruiters say they are not worried about the predicted slowdown in creation of skilled jobs and that there is still a war for top talent.
Engineering, Life sciences 4 February 2015

Persimmon Homes to open school for ex-military personnel in London

Persimmon Homes is to open a new school in London to train and recruit ex-military personnel to plug skills gaps.

Government on hunt for 750 civil service apprentices

The UK government has announced plans to create 750 civil service apprenticeships.
Public sector 4 February 2015

GLA strips licence from underpaying recruiter

The Gangmasters Licensing Authority (GLA) has revoked the licence of a Dudley gangmaster found to be paying less than minimum wage and lacking “competencies required to run the business compliantly”.

Services sector employment growth reaches second highest level since 1995

The rate of employment growth in the UK’s services sector has reached its second highest level in 20 years, according to January’s Markit/CIPS (Chartered Institute of Purchasing & Supply) UK services purchasing managers’ index.
Industrial/Manufacturing 4 February 2015

RED chooses Mercury xRM software

Global SAP recruiter RED has selected Mercury xRM’s recruitment software as part of an upgrade of its IT infrastructure.
IT/Telecoms 4 February 2015

ITS Marine partners with industry body IMarEST

Southampton-based global marine recruiter ITS Marine has partnered with industry body the Institute of Marine Engineering Science and Technology (IMarEST).
IT/Telecoms, Engineering 4 February 2015
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