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6 May 2025
Public sector, Creative/Digital/Media

NEW TO THE MARKET: 5-9 MAY 2025

• Heidrick & Struggles has launched a new Government & Defense Tech Practice, aimed at serving the growing demand for technology leadership within public sector organisations. With governments estimated to account for 10% of global technology and IT services spending, the firm sees this as a significant market opportunity. The practice consolidates the company’s experience from over 200 engagements to provide leadership solutions for organisations delivering technology to national, state and local governments worldwide.

The new practice will support clients by offering leadership search, development and organisational effectiveness services. It brings together more than 30 experienced partners across sectors such as IT services, aerospace and defence, energy and private equity, operating globally across North America, Europe, Asia and Australia. The initiative addresses the increasing reliance of governments on advanced technologies like AI, cloud infrastructure, cybersecurity and robotics.

• Workforce management solutions firm Matrix has supported more than 10,000 individuals across the UK into employment between March 2024 and April 2025 through its Social Value team. The efforts focused on a wide range of community initiatives, including employability workshops, career guidance and volunteering opportunities. These programmes were designed to help students, jobseekers and public sector employees gain essential skills and access new career pathways.

• UK start-up Project Brains has launched ProdigyPB, an AI-powered platform designed to revolutionise job description creation and recruitment. Tailored for SMEs, growing businesses, and HR teams, ProdigyPB helps define precise hiring needs by aligning job roles with specific business challenges. The tool generates clear, bias-free job descriptions in seconds and enables users to engage with vetted fractional specialists from Project Brains’ talent pool, according to a company statement. ProdigyPB is currently available in Beta across the UK.

28 April 2025
Life sciences, Engineering

NEW TO THE MARKET: 28 APRIL-2 MAY 2025

• Jobmatch Sweden, a leader in occupational psychological testing, is expanding in Norway through a new partnership with consulting firm Sund Raad. Sund Raad, which focuses on enhancing employee engagement for small and medium-sized businesses, will integrate Jobmatch’s DNV-certified Talent test into its services. This marks Jobmatch’s second partnership in Norway, following its 2022 collaboration with Hapro Jobb og Karriere. Jobmatch Talent is a scientifically validated tool used for recruitment and employee development, according to the company press release.

• STEM recruitment specialist Matchtech has launched STEM Futures, a free, on-demand employability platform aimed at helping young people break into engineering and technology careers. The programme includes expert-led sessions on job search strategies, CV writing, interviews and personal development, and is part of Matchtech’s broader initiative to address the STEM skills gap and support emerging talent.

In addition, Matchtech has awarded the first two grants from its Materna Fund, a £2.5k bursary created to support engineering students facing financial hardship. The inaugural recipients, Sergio Carreno Vargas and David Sarembock from the University of Portsmouth, are using the funds to focus on their studies and development without the added pressure of financial strain.

• Meet Life Sciences has launched Synergy, a new standalone service designed to tackle people capability challenges in the life sciences sector that go beyond recruitment. As part of Meet’s evolution into a full-service talent solutions partner, Synergy offers tailored support in areas like workforce planning, leadership development, skills mapping, culture embedding and organisational design. Led by vice-president Kirsty Wilson, the service is built specifically for the life sciences industry and is focused on delivering measurable, outcome-driven solutions. Unlike traditional consulting, Synergy provides hands-on support from design through to implementation, helping clients build the capability needed to grow, adapt and lead in a competitive global market.

• Right Management, part of ManpowerGroup, has launched a refreshed brand strategy called ‘The Right Way’. It’s a human-centred, data-backed framework that aligns workforce development with business strategy. The new identity centres on ‘The Right Way loop’, a distinctive visual element with modern colours and typography that will be used across all brand touchpoints.

25 April 2025
Construction & property, Graduates/Apprentices/School leavers

National student lettings agency launches apprenticeship scheme

In a bid to support young people and grow skilled and knowledgeable individuals for the student lettings sector, loc8me recently launched its 18-month programme, which is open to anyone aged 16-18. The scheme will offer hands-on experience, mentorship and the opportunity to engage in paid work.

Raffaele Russo, founder of loc8me, said: “We’re thrilled to launch this apprenticeship programme, giving young professionals a real chance to learn, grow and begin building a career in an exciting industry.

“Now more than ever, young people are seeking opportunities, guidance and goals to pursue. With this programme, we’re investing in their future – and in the future of the lettings sector.”

Apprentices will have the chance to study the theoretical and practical elements of the lettings industry, and on starting, they will be given a mentor from the loc8me team to support their development via regular meetings throughout the course.

loc8me now operates in 13 major university cities across the UK, including Loughborough, Durham, Nottingham, Manchester, Leeds, Cardiff, Newcastle, Birmingham, Liverpool, Leicester, Hull, Bath and Bristol.

Freya Watson-Russo, academy co-ordinator, said: "At loc8me, we’re committed to nurturing the next generation of letting agents. … We’re giving young people the chance to build a future, gain confidence and carve their own path.”

Founded in 2008 by Russo, loc8me manages more than 2,500 properties and employs more than 75 staff members.

(L-r) Apprentice Ollie Coe, loc8me's marketing assistant and academy co-ordinator Freya Watson-Russo and apprentice Isabel Tebbutt ©loc8me

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14 April 2025
Creative/Digital/Media, Engineering

NEW TO THE MARKET: 14-18 APRIL 2025

• Manufacturing and engineering specialist Busy Bee Recruitment has relaunched its website. The refreshed online platform has a modern design and enhanced user functionality, offering an intuitive browsing experience that makes it easier than ever to explore current vacancies, submit CVs quickly and securely, access expert recruitment advice via a blog and submit vacancies directly online.

• Deel, a global payroll and HR provider, has launched a suite of AI-driven products to help companies hire, manage, and pay international teams. Deel will offer an all-in-one global workforce platform integrating payroll, HR, and IT, designed to support compliant operations across borders. Key updates include: Real-Time Payroll in over 53 markets (expanding to 130+ by 2027), offering instant calculations and faster processing; Deel PEO for offering top-tier benefits without enterprise-level costs; Benefits Admin for simplified, compliant benefits management across countries; Deel Talent for streamlined recruitment via trusted agency networks; Workforce Planning, Compensation, and Engage tools – powered by AI – for smarter headcount strategy, global pay management, and employee development; IT Lifecycle Management features like MDM, IAM, and EPP, supporting global device and security control.

3 July 2017
Marketing, Transport & logistics, Creative/Digital/Media, Commercial & office support, Industrial/Manufacturing, HR

NEW TO THE MARKET: 3-7 JULY 2017

• Cloud computing company Bullhorn has launched the Novo Experience aimed at improving recruiter and candidate interactions. The system enables users to configure their workspace to adapt to their needs – regardless of role, geography, language or device.

Users will benefit from:

  • Being able to view CVs in full screen mode, while also being able to enter in notes.
  • The Bullhorn platform now being fully globalised, supporting a localised user interface as well as the ability to parse and store content in multiple languages.
  • The ability to configure the menu system as they see fit, with users able to drag and drop their icons around to make it faster to get the information they use most.
  • A re-designed submission workflow increasing efficiency by enabling users to move candidates through the recruitment process faster than before and being able to toggle between seeing candidates actively in a stage or how many have historically been in that stage.

• Andrew Stoves and Mark Robins, previously of marketing PR and advertising staffing specialist Major Players, have joined forces to launch digital talent specialist Native Gravity.

The recruitment agency will focus on marketing, creative and technology hires as well as contingent, retained and bespoke project-based solutions.

Native Gravity is based on the Southbank in London.

• Specialist recruiter Resourcing Group, part of nGAGE Specialist Recruitment, has opened a Glasgow office.

The new office will serve the built environment sector, including social housing, facilities management, construction, surveying & property, and architecture & design.

• International secretarial staffing specialist Secretary Affairs has launched. The firm says it is dedicated to connecting “experienced, glamorous” candidates with businesses seeking to fill vacancies across the world.

Isabella Garcia, HR manager of Secretary Affairs, said: “My own personal experiences and research indicates that attractiveness and success are linked. For roles that are often client facing, such as personal assistants and secretaries, it can have an impact on how the company is viewed and, in turn, its success. 

“Of course, looks are no substitute for experience and qualifications. That’s why Secretary Affairs takes both aspects into consideration, placing only exceptional candidates in front of companies looking for new talent.”

Secretary Affairs is based in Pargue, in the Czech Republic, and Zurich in Switzerland.

Secretary Affairs has launched in Prague and Zurich

• Kent tech-start-up SupplyNow has launched. SupplyNow’s founder Simon Taylor says the firm plans to disrupt the traditional supply teacher agency market by aiming to charge less than a third of what some agencies charge of up to £70 per day fees on teacher pay rates of £130 or £140.

The platform is self-funded at the moment, but an investment round is being planned this summer, with the proceeds invested in adding features to the app, and attracting schools and teachers to start using the app.

• Recruitment and HR specialist The Curve Group has launched a new package of services for employers who use self-employed workers.

This includes an information website page, a series of case studies and thought leadership articles, a LinkedIn group for employers of self-employed workers and a national series of breakfast seminars to provide advice and information for employers.

• Multi-sector recruiter Workforce Recruitment has opened an office in Birmingham. The branch, which will operate manufacturing, logistics and professional driving, follows the firm’s recent office opening in nearby Solihull.

26 June 2017
Retail, Transport & logistics, Banking/Financial services, Industrial/Manufacturing, IT/Telecoms

NEW TO THE MARKET: 26-30 JUNE 2017

• Global workforce solutions provider for the energy, process and infrastructure sectors Airswift is to launch three new strategic delivery centres.

The sites, located in Baku in Azerbaijan, Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia and Brazil’s Rio de Janerio, will employ more than 30 new staff dedicated to 24/7 global client recruitment support for large-scale and expat hiring.

The centres will focus solely on building candidate databases and recruiting for global positions across all sectors – in particular energy where hiring is ramping up as well as proactively developing contractor candidate pools within emerging client sectors such as power, rail and telecommunications.

• International multifunctional specialist recruiter Argyll Scott is delighted to announce has completed its move from its offices at 71 Kingsway to the Hydrogen Group’s London office at 30 Eastcheap, London, EC3M 1HD, following the completion of the merger between the two agencies.

In a statement released today, the firms said the move, part of a 100-day integration plan, will strengthen the group’s position in the London market and facilitate greater collaboration between the Argyll Scott and Hydrogen operations, as well as benefitting from economies of scale and combined purchasing power.

• Business standards company BSI has launched a new standard for employers to provide guidance for good practice on valuing their employees through diversity & inclusion.

The standard, BS 76005 ‘Valuing people through diversity and inclusion – code of practice for organisations’, is relevant to all organisations, whatever their size, sector and level of maturity. It provides recommendations for undertaking, reviewing, assessing and undertaking a competent and principled approach to diversity & inclusion in the workplace.

The recommendations cover people management and development, and the evolution of more inclusive policies, procedures, practices and behaviours within organisations supporting diversity, along with the building of productive relationships with others – whether they are customers, clients or people within communities.

• Global provider of relocation services Cartus Corporation has moved to larger premises in São Paolo, Brazil.

The firm, which opened its first office in São Paolo in October 2014, is located one block from Paulista Avenue, São Paolo’s largest financial and corporate district.

• The Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport (CILT) and ITN Productions have launched Driving the Future, highlighting the range of career paths available to work within the transport and logistics sector.

The news and current-affairs style programme is fronted by national newsreader Natasha Kaplinsky, who speaks to CILT CEO Kevin Richardson about the range of highly skilled and rewarding jobs in the sector, and how people are unaware of the career paths and transferable skills available to those working within and supporting the supply chain.

The programme also features interviews with industry figures and news-style reports, along with sponsored editorial profiles of organisations helping to drive change within the industry including BT, Close Brothers Asset Finance, GT Nexus, Key Fuels, Sealed Air and SSI Schaefer.

The programme premiered on 8t June at the CILT Annual Conference and Dinner at Chesford Grange, Kenilworth and can be viewed on the CILT’s website or on the CILT YouTube channel.

• Medical recruitment agency National Locums has expanded its mental health division.

While the division has traditionally recruited psychiatrists and mental health nurses, the expanded division will now supply psychologists – clinical, forensic and counselling – as well as psychotherapists, and other professionals working in the mental health arena, including psychological wellbeing practitioners, occupational therapists, social workers and family therapists.

• NonStop Recruitment, a Europe-wide specialist in the pharma, medical devices, chemical, care, digital, education and technical markets, has launched new division – NonStop Finance.

Adrian Dickinson heads up the new division, joining as NonStop Finance divisional lead. His move follows nearly 20 years building teams in the banking & financial services, IT, change and social care markets, with large recruitment firms. He was managing director of Capita’s Social Care businesses, and director at Hays within its financial markets division.

Dickinson will initially work with existing UK contacts and look to tackle the Swiss market, with the long-term view to offer NonStop Finance services across all major European financial centres.

The appointment coincides with NonStop setting its sights on going global in 2019 with 99% organically grown talent via its own in-house recruitment training academy.

• A former senior talent acquisition manager at software giant Symantec is launching a recruitment platform known as Talentpuddle.

Founded by talent acquisition expert Martin Dangerfield, the platform aims to provide clients with a quick and competitive method of recruitment through machine learning. This method analyses existing applicant tracking systems or HR data with current job specifications to bring up all possible candidate matches using competencies, skills and experience not just keywords or job titles.

The system works in real time and makes, what Dangerfield calls, “blind” matches in the aim of eliminating unconscious bias.

Dangerfield revealed the platform is currently receiving a “soft” launch with a demo site being prepared in the next few weeks. He added he is currently talking to companies willing to be early adopters of the platform.

• Sunderland-based recruitment platform Technically Compatible has expanded its services to the Philippines.

North-East paper The Chronicle reports the international expansion follows the Wearside tech company being enlisted by global software firm Cloud Employee to help it source talent.

Cloud Employee has offices in the UK, Australia and the Philippines, and Technically Compatible will help the company find IT talent for roles it recruits for in the Philippines.

• Flexible workforce solutions provider The Best Connection has opened an office in Woodbridge, Canada.

Located in the suburban centre of the City of Vaughan, Toronto, the branch will serve people looking for temporary work assignments in the fabrication, metal forming, plastics, food, automotive, packaging, warehousing & distribution and recycling sectors.

 

20 June 2017

Google for Jobs launches in US

However, the tech giant is hopeful of rollout in territories other than the US in the coming year.

The service, launching today in the US, is an artificial intelligence-powered job search tool aimed at making it easier for jobseekers to find roles.

From today people in the US using the service will be able to see at a glance details about a posting, such as job title, location, whether it’s full-time, part-time or an internship, as well as the opportunity to access detailed information about each job. 

They can also see the how long it would take to commute to the job from their home thanks to Google Maps.

Ahead of launch, Google worked with job board tech provider Madgex to ensure it was capturing jobs from big brands such as The Washington Post. Madgex adds all its job boards now have the ability to integrate with Google’s new search results. 

But as for when we can expect Google to roll out the service to the UK, a spokesperson for Google was tightlipped.

“Google for Jobs is currently rolling out in the US in English across the Google app, desktop, mobile web. We hope to expand further in the coming year but have no plans to announce at this time.”

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19 June 2017
Rec-to-rec, Transport & logistics, Construction & property, Interim recruitment, HR, Healthcare/Medical

NEW TO THE MARKET: 19-23 JUNE 2017

• 2B Interface, specialist recruiter for trades people and professional staff, is expanding into South-East Asia, with the opening of a new office in Singapore. The launch closely follows its new Polish branch in May.

As well as building on its experience of providing permanent staffing to interior design and trades sectors, 2B Interface also aims to fulfill senior roles in the customer services and financial sectors in Singapore.

Beatrice Bartlay, managing director and founder of 2B Interface, says: “We pride ourselves on the high level of service we provide to our customers and given the economic growth in Singapore – it grew by 2% in 2016 and is due to grow another 2.3% this year – it made sense to expand here.”

The Singapore office will be run by Peck Howe, who has over 25 years’ experience in human resources.

• The Association of Professional Staffing Companies (APSCo) has launched Recruitment Needs Talent – a campaign aimed at attracting, development and retaining talent within professional recruitment.

The campaign, which will run over the summer, will be supported by integrated communications, PR and social media activity.

• Global recruiter g2 Recruitment has opened an office in Birmingham. Team leader Liam Neal, currently with the firm in Manchester, will relocate to run the office, set to open in September.

• Built environment staffing specialist Peace Recruitment Group has just launched a new website.

The site features a ‘Trip Advisor-like service for the recruitment industry’. The JobCast service has been specifically designed to ensure that all clients receive gold standard customer service.

Peace worked with strategic digital partner Bold Identities to design and develop these new features.

• Driving, industrial and healthcare staffing specialist Swanstaff Recruitment has launched a staff enterprise management incentive share scheme that sees 25% of the company value awarded to full-time employees over the next five years.

Staff that have been employed by the company for a minimum of 12 months as of 1 April 2017 will be offered the opportunity to purchase shares at a set price at a future time when certain conditions, set out in the option agreement, are met.

The exit plan on these options will be the floatation of Swanstaff on the stock market in 2023 when staff can choose to purchase their shares at the price specified. When the shares are sold employees will benefit from any growth in value.

• A former director of executive search and interim management provider Penna has set up Tile Hill, a new provider of interim management and independent consultants for the public sector.

The firm is founded by David Weir, who previously spent 10 years growing and leading a public sector interim team at Penna before launching Tile Hill.

• Global diversity and inclusion recruitment website VERCIDA.com has launched.

The tech platform, aimed at jobseekers seeking to work for employers that place inclusion and staff wellbeing high on the agenda, seeks to enable employers to attract diverse talent in a pro-active way by demonstrating the benefits and initiatives they offer to candidates.

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