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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.

5 June 2017
Public sector, Education, Legal, Executive search

NEW TO THE MARKET 5-9 JUNE 2017

• Executive search and leadership advice firm Adastrum Consulting has launched a tool based on research it carried out with Kingston Business School's Wellbeing at Work Research Group.

Adastrum claims the Leaders with Purpose tool is the first to explore a leader’s sense of purpose, and how their leadership style and organisational context act as a facilitator or barrier to success.

It collates insights and responses from managers, peers, key stakeholders and those directly reporting to an individual based on a range of questions.

• On-demand recruitment software provider Bullhorn has launched a new suite of software for healthcare staffing firms.

The London-based firm said Bullhorn Healthcare Edition would improve efficiencies in candidate and client engagement, credentialing, document management, shift scheduling and workflow automation.

• Midlands-based legal recruiter Bygott Biggs has created a paralegal and support staff division in response to client demand.

The unit, headed by recruitment consultant Mike Green, will focus solely on non-lawyer workers for the legal sector. It will be based at Bygott Biggs’ Nottingham office. The firm also has bases in Leeds and Birmingham.

Green said the new division meant the firm covered the whole spectrum of roles in the legal sector.

“We feel there is a gap in the market,” he added. “There has been increased use of paralegal and support staff in London recently and it is being replicated in the regions.

“At the moment we are using existing staff but there is potential to hire in the future depending on how busy it becomes.”

• The Classroom Partnership has opened a new office in Warrington, the sixth office opening in the UK for the education recruiter.

The staffing agency says it sees the North-West as a strategic growth area and Warrington as an ideal location. It will support local authorities in Liverpool, Manchester, Warrington and surrounding areas.

Along with the new office, Gail Andrews has been appointed director. Andrews previously held senior positions within Vision for Education, Axcis SEND Recruitment and ITN Mark Education.

30 May 2017
Marketing & Sales, Executive search, IT/Telecoms, Hospitality/Leisure, Accounting/Finance

NEW TO THE MARKET: 30 MAY-3 JUNE 2017

• Independent job site CV-Library has launched a Republic of Ireland operation. The move also sees sales professional Gavin Smith join the operation. He previously worked at Jobs.ie.

• Executive search organisation Oceans Group, subsidiary of talent management business Harrier Human Capital, has launched a new executive HR practice. Michael Semark, previously director, executive and permanent at HR recruitment specialist The Next Step has been appointed to lead the new practice.

The firm adds that Semark will shortly be joined by a number of other HR specialists as the firm builds the practice.

• Temporary staffing supplier LOLA Staffing has rebranded and changed name to TempTribe. The firm says the change reflects a desire to retain its core focus as a specialist supplier to the hospitality and events industry, while becoming more relevant to its diverse workforce and client base.

The firm adds the new TempTribe brand reflects the idea of community, with the business planning to use its developing technology to better connect workers with each other, and ensure the best hospitality staff are motivated to remain on its platform.

• Greater Manchester-based contractor accountancy firm Gorilla Accounting has launched a new umbrella business, Gorilla Payroll. The business is aimed at flexible workers, and has been launched in light of recent legislative changes affecting contractors and the self-employed.

• Newcastle-based management recruiter Edward Reed Recruitment has rebranded, launching a new logo and website design featuring iconic imagery associated with the North East.

• Screening software provider IScreenYouScreen has launched. The software works by providing online application forms and reference requests, while letter templates can be branded to suit any company. Users also have access to a database of more than 100,000 employers, with contact details that integrate with automatic letter and email generation in a bid to speed up referencing procedures.

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22 May 2017
Retail, Sales, Commercial & office support, Accounting/Finance

NEW TO THE MARKET: 22-26 MAY 2017

• India-based online recruitment marketplace AasaanJobs has launched an interview scheduling feature for employers and candidates registered on its platform.

The feature enables employers to specify and pick different time slots for scheduling interviews with job hopefuls.

• Human capital company Beyond360 has launched an employee engagement portal.

The portal, which operates on mobile devices as well as desktops, enables employees to refer candidates for jobs, to give and receive real time feedback, access training and coaching, appreciate and reward each other, access wellbeing programmes, recommend sales referrals, share and express ideas, and access discounts from major high street brands.

• IT recruiter Evolution Recruitment Solutions has launched a new software system. The new system, housing millions of candidate records, uses techniques such as data mining and semantic matching to ‘read’, interpret and make sense of CVs and profiles, build a complex map of technology employers and candidates and automatically track employees’ career progression.

The data is not only of use to local employers and candidates, but also provides industry insights to help inform strategic decisions such as company relocations or to help overseas technology firms looking to set up offices in the UK.

• Newcastle-based Frank Recruitment Group is to open an office in Dallas. Located on the 24th floor of Ross Tower, the office, which officially opens on 5 June, will primarily focus on Frank Recruitment Group’s technology recruitment brand Nigel Frank International (NFI).

The Dallas office will be led by NFI executive vice president Paul Briggs and vice president Paden Simmons.

NFI specialises in supplying skilled Microsoft Dynamics and Stack professionals to employers in the US and worldwide.

• Workplace disability consultant MyPlus Consulting has launched a recruiters toolkit, ‘Recruiting talented disabled students: from engagement to onboarding’.

The Student Recruitment Toolkit helps businesses understand what being a disability confident student recruiter means in practice. It offers practical advice to achieve this, with a step-by-step guide to bring about disability confidence in eight key focus areas, enabling employers to easily understand what they need to do, and how to measure progress.

• FMCG and retail brand staffing specialist New Chapter has completed its office move into the Wellington Place development in Leeds city centre, managed by property investment and development business MEPC.

The space, occupying over 2,000 sq ft of the third floor of 10 Wellington Place, forms part of the firm’s expansion plans, which has seen the company grow from two recruitment professionals 12 years ago, to more than 35 across its Leeds and London offices.

The firm adds it chose Wellington Place due to its proximity to the business community, overall development design and the community activities created by MEPC, which includes a work-place choir, creative writing courses, knitting clubs and beekeeping as part of the package.

• Recruitment platform Peek launched yesterday in London. The platform, available as both an app and a web version, aims to make recruitment more relevant to candidates and employers by using artificial intelligence, behavioural learning and algorithms to match candidates on personality, culture and values as well as skills and experience.

• Construction recruiter Unite People has launched. The firm, located in London’s Liverpool Street and led by founding partners Tom Perkin, Ross Bayston and Colm McGinley, serves the civil engineering, construction, rail and residential development sectors.

McGinley is also CEO of multi-sector recruitment firm McGinley Group.

• Multi-sector recruiter Workforce Recruitment is opening a new branch in Solihull. Director Tina White led the new office opening.

The 1,260 sq ft branch in Highlands House on the town’s Highlands Road will serve jobseekers and employers across Solihull, South Birmingham, Coventry and Warwickshire for professional services including sales, administration, accounts and customer services.

15 May 2017
Construction & property, Executive search, HR

NEW TO THE MARKET: 15-19 MAY

• Specialist staffing company 2B Interface has opened an office in Poland, located in Kamienna Gora, Lower Silesian Voivodeship.

The branch will be jointly run by chairman Justyna Mikolajczyk and vice chairman Arkadiusz Burek, and will be known as Agencja Pracy Meeritt.

• Graduate recruiter XL Graduate Placement has rebranded as Graduate Talent Solutions following its 2016 its acquisition by talent management specialists Nicholas Associates Group.

The rebrand also sees a new website launched, while the firm has also opened an office in Sheffield.

Nicholas Associates Group’s companies including Stafforce, Nicholas Associates Professional, Ashley Kate HR, Nicholas Associates Software and Nicholas Associates Consulting.

• Professional network LinkedIn has launched two new features, Inmail analytics report and Today’s Job Matches.

Available from today on LinkedIn Recruiter, the InMail analytics report aims to use candidate insights to help recruiters improve response rates and have more strategic data-driven conversations with stakeholders.

Today’s Job Matches is a LinkedIn mobile app, available in coming weeks, which gives members a personally curated daily list of jobs matches and insights based on their personal preferences, salary highlights, skills and location.

• Niche technology recruiter MRL Group has introduced a paid sabbatical scheme as part of its employee wellbeing package. Recruiters at the Brighton-based firm can now benefit from a month off (fully paid) and a £1k one off payment, after every five years of service.

David Stone, CEO of MRL Group, says the initiative will help address the notorious ‘burn-out’ rate the recruitment profession suffers from, as well as assist the company’s recruitment and retention strategy.

• Global network of retained executive search firms Penrhyn International has launched its new global technology, media & telecoms (TMT) practice group.

The group is led by Yanouk Poirier, managing partner of pan-Canadian firm Leaders International.

• IT, media and engineering recruiter Premier Group has redesigned its website. The new site offers jobseekers the ability to create job alerts, while a new section about working for the firm has been added providing an in-depth view of what it is like to work for Premier.

• Kent-based recruiter Red Eagle has moved into new head offices in Folkestone, which is double the size of its existing office.

It will provide administrative support for Red Eagle’s other branches at Sittingbourne, Bexley and London, as well as its on-site operations in Dover and Thanet. In addition, the offices will accommodate the Folkestone staff, as well as the construction division, site labour supplies and Red Eagle’s chosen charity Donations with a Difference.

A new training room will provide free training for its workers, offering courses in Maths, English, manual handling, food safety, and health & safety.

• Recruitment tech start-up firm SymbaSync has secured six-figure funding to launch its job matching and recruitment platform.

The platform, launched by University of Edinburgh students and supported by the University’s commercialisation team Launch.Ed, aims to eliminate early stage recruitment bias and speed up initial recruitment processes to ensure a better candidate fit.

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