APPOINTMENTS: 5-9 MAY 2025

This week’s appointments include: Zellis

IT/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

Elite Leaders appoints new Executive Team member

Elite Leaders is delighted to announce the appointment of Chris O’Connell to its Executive team.

People 1 May 2025

Humly acquires London-based education recruiter

Digital education recruitment platform Humly has finalised the purchase of London-based supply agency Future Education.

HMRC to ‘revise’ IR35 CEST tool

The government has announced that its Check Employment Status for Tax (CEST) tool will be “revised” from today [30 April 2025].

APSCo briefs House of Lords on more amendments to Employment Rights Bill

Trade body APSCo has warned Peers of urgent amendments needed to the Employment Rights Bill, which must be addressed before it reaches Royal Assent.

Legislation 30 April 2025

Recruiters play down old drinking culture

A boozy night out is increasingly becoming an optional rather than mandatory means of celebrating success in the recruitment sector.

Lighter Side 9 October 2019

EY recruits on island of Ireland

EY is set to create 136 new jobs at its Belfast office.

FINANCIALS: PageGroup profits fall in UK but up across group

Global recruiter PageGroup has seen UK gross profit fall 4.1% year-on-year, according to a trading update for Q3 2019.

Financials 8 October 2019

FINANCIALS: Robert Walters blames lack of job movement in UK

Global recruiter Robert Walters claims its 11% decline in UK gross profits is not due to any underlying weakness in the UK economy.

Financials 8 October 2019

Perm placements down again but temp billings up slightly

Brexit uncertainty continued to hit hiring activity in September, according to the latest Recruitment & Employment Confederation (REC) KPMG Report on Jobs.

Retail, Public sector 8 October 2019

Recruitment firms feature in Sunday Times Top Track 250

Five recruitment agencies have featured in this year’s Sunday Times Grant Thornton Top Track 250, compiled by research and events firm Fast Track.

8 October 2019

Muslim consultant awarded £22.5k for racist comments from director

A Muslim recruitment consultant has been awarded more than £22.5k in compensation after an agency director made racist and religious discriminatory comments about her.

Legislation 7 October 2019

Strike the right balance in job ads to avoid indirect age discrimination

Recruiters have been urged to strike a balance in job adverts in order to not fall foul of age discrimination rules.

Legislation 7 October 2019

Hay, fancy looking after Her Majesty’s horses? Here’s the perfect job

Do you love the Royal Family and horses? Then we have the perfect role that you won’t want to say neigh to.

APPOINTMENTS: 7-11 OCTOBER 2019

This week’s appointments include: Airswift, City Executive Search, Eames Consulting Group, Eden Scott, Fircroft, HRC Recruitment, Jackson Hogg, Randstad, Resource Solutions, Rota, Talent Intuition

CONTRACTS & DEALS: 7-11 OCTOBER 2019

This week’s contracts and deals includes: Rullion, S&H Consulting, Sheffield Haworth, WBR M&E

NEW TO THE MARKET: 7-11 OCTOBER 2019

This week’s launches include: CV-Library, Euromedica, JVP Group, NCVO

Food choices matter to help in a high-stress work environment

Improving access to fruit, vegetables and water can improve worker wellbeing in high-stress environments such as recruitment.

HR 4 October 2019

Cybersecurity jobs at MetaCompliance in Derry

A Derry-based technology firm is to create 70 new jobs.

IT/Telecoms 4 October 2019

Travel the world taking photos and get paid for it? Form an orderly queue…

Travel agency The Yacht Week is recruiting for two people to travel the world next year, capturing all their experiences through stunning photo and video content.

Recruiters will have to jump through more hoops with immigration plans

Recruiters are likely to have more “hoops to jump through” if government plans for an Australian points-based system post-Brexit are given the go ahead.

Legislation 3 October 2019
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