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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

ersg appoints Liffen UK head of permanent recruitment

Energy recruiter ersg has appointed Paul Liffen as the new UK head of permanent recruitment.

Home Office postpones in-person identity checks until June

The Home Office has called an 11th-hour delay to reimposing in-person ‘Right to Work’ identity checks, with the date moved from 17 May to 21 June.

12 May 2021

Employment Bill absent from Queen’s Speech

The government’s failure to put forward the long-promised Employment Bill in the Queen’s Speech yesterday (11 May, 2021) outlining coming legislation in the next year has prompted reactions of disappointment from trade bodies and think tanks.

12 May 2021

HW Global launches division to attract sub-£100k candidates

UK headhunter HW Global is launching a mid-market recruitment business using executive search tec

12 May 2021

Job seekers fall victim to scammers

Nearly three in four job seekers applied for non-existent positions during the Covid-19 pandemic, and scams are still “extremely prevalent”, according to new information from the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS).

11 May 2021

HR GO rejects accusations aired in Radio 4 report

A recruitment company that has been identified in a BBC Radio 4 File on 4 report about mini umbrella companies as having recruited at least one worker who was employed by a MUC has told Recruiter it “rejects any suggestion” that it engages in “illegal, fraudulent or exploitative behaviour”.

11 May 2021

Organised online socialising unhelpful, say mental health experts

Instead of booking more team social occasions online, recruitment bosses who help their staff to get away from their screens more often could be contributing to their improved mental health, health coach Michelle Flynn has advised a webinar audience.

11 May 2021

BBC report highlights sham ‘mini umbrella companies’

A new report from the BBC has again put the spotlight on schemes that create sham ‘mini umbrella companies’ that UK temporary workers are employed through, costing the UK “hundreds of millions of pounds” in lost taxes.

10 May 2021

Penta Consulting announces CEO appointment

Professional and managed IT services provider Penta Consulting has announced that Paul Braham will join the company as CEO with immediate effect.

10 May 2021

Storm2 opens third global hub to boost European market

Fintech recruiter Storm2 have launched a third global hub, this time in Amsterdam

10 May 2021

Anglian Water to boost repair team numbers

Anglian Water has announced the first part of its largest-ever recruitment drive to expand its ‘army’ of leakage technicians and engineers.

10 May 2021

Guidant Global launches diversity consortium in US

Talent acquisition and managed workforce solutions provider Guidant Global has launched its new INfluence Workforce Consortium in the US, bringing together specialist US partners to help employers put diversity into action across contingent workforces.

10 May 2021

Curve Group to provide HR services for Just Group

Outsourcing and consultancy provider The Curve Group has confirmed its appointment as Just Group’s HR outsource provider.

10 May 2021

Scotland’s Nine Twenty helps credit firm expand quickly

Scottish technical recruitment specialist Nine Twenty has supported the rapid expansion of Glasgow-headquartered Pastdue Credit Solutions. 

10 May 2021

Appointments 10-14 May 2021

This week's appointments include: Intermediary Ambassador Network

10 May 2021

Recruiters call on Patel to postpone in-person checks

Much of the recruitment industry has joined forces to urge home secretary Priti Patel to rethink the re-introduction of in-person ‘Right to Work’ checks on 17 May, sending the message to Patel in a strongly worded letter.

7 May 2021
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