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14 May 2025
Creative/Digital/Media, Engineering

NEW TO THE MARKET: 12-16 MAY 2025

• Global specialist recruitment company Eames Consulting has opened a new office in Philadelphia, focusing on technology and digital enablement. Located at the Wanamaker Building, 100 East Penn Square, this is the recruiter’s second US location, following its New York office, which opened in 2022. The Philadelphia team will be headed up by Steven Stahl, a highly experienced recruiter. Also joining are Sam Youngberg (managing consultant) and Callum Stainer (senior consultant), data and AI recruitment specialists.

• Eightfold AI, which helps organisations recruit and retain top talent, and upskill/reskill their entire workforce, has added two new foundational AI products to its portfolio. Expanding its capabilities in talent acquisition, Eightfold introduces AI Interviewer to automate candidate engagement and assessment, enhancing responsiveness and selection outcomes. The company has also launched Digital Twin, a personalised AI model that captures and applies employee knowledge across systems to drive real-time productivity and decision-making.

• SF Recruitment has opened a new East Midlands headquarters in Castle Donington, strategically positioned next to East Midlands Airport. The new hub unites the company’s Leicester and Nottingham teams, with the company broadening its expertise into STEM fields, including technology and engineering, alongside its core areas of finance, private equity and corporate services. Over 40 team members will be based at the new headquarters and plans for European growth are underway, according to the company statement.

13 May 2025
Transport & logistics, Graduates/Apprentices/School leavers

Aspiring pilots can apply to join fully-funded training programme

Flight training typically costs in excess of £100k.

The programme has been developed to support Jet2.com’s growth, enabling the leisure airline to fly more customers away to enjoy their holidays on an expanding fleet of aircraft.

Jet2FlightPath is open to candidates from all backgrounds (subject to meeting the application criteria) and aims to boost social mobility and promote diversity within the pilot community. To apply, candidates need at least five GCSEs at grade 4 or above, including maths and a science subject, or equivalent qualifications – making Jet2FlightPath more accessible than other programmes.

The selection process, including assessments and interviews, will see successful candidates invited to take their place on a fully funded 18-month Airline Transport Pilot Licence (ATPL) training course in the UK, Spain or US, with courses starting this year. Upon completion of the ATPL course, trainees will then be offered Type Rating training on either an Airbus or Boeing aircraft, before becoming a Jet2.com pilot. Three partners set to deliver this training are Skyborne Airline Academy, Leading Edge and FTE Jerez.

When completing the Jet2FlightPath pilot training programme, trainees will also be fully immersed in the operation and culture at Jet2.com and Jet2holidays, “so that they can understand all the qualities that make up the businesses”, a company statement said. This includes gaining exposure to various customer-facing roles such as cabin crew and ground operations.

Jet2.com plans to put 60 pilots through Jet2FlightPath in the first year of the programme and then expand it to attract “even more” aspiring pilots in the coming years as the company continues to grow, the company said. 

The UK’s third largest airline currently employs over 1,800 pilots and will operate a fleet of up to 135 aircraft this summer, flying customers to sun and leisure city destinations across Europe, the Mediterranean and the Canary Islands from 13 UK airport bases.

The brand-new Jet2FlightPath programme opens for applications today [13 May 2025]. Pilots of the future can find out further information as well as how to apply by clicking here.

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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.

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.

8 May 2017
Public sector, Transport & logistics, Education

NEW TO THE MARKET: 8-12 MAY 2017

• Beatrice Bartlay, business coach and founder of staffing agency 2B Interface, has launched a series of seminars to mentor the next wave of entrepreneurs.

Bartlay is offering four seminar programmes to help recruitment entrepreneurs achieve goals and become self-confident. The programmes are: ‘Work smart, not hard’, ‘The alchemy of financial freedom’, ‘Liberty: women mean business’ and ‘The gold winning team’.

• The Association of Professional Staffing Companies (APSCo) and the National Association of Head Teachers (NAHT) have revealed new guidance for each body’s members around teacher recruitment.

NAHT members will be offered guidance on working with teacher supply and recruitment companies, and will be introduced to APSCo’s new Code of Conduct for its education recruiter members. The code, sets out how professional recruitment consultancies will conduct themselves and what schools and academies can expect from APSCo members.

• Recruitment and marketing analytics platform ClickIQ has launched. The platform aims to intelligently improve campaign performance whilereducing spend by up to 40% by using big data analytics and machine learning to analyse response patterns to pay-for-performance recruitment ads, against budget use, media placement, role and location.

The platform uses this data to automatically place bids in direct proportion to the likelihood of success, with the aim of ensuring its customers do not overspend on easy to fill roles or underspend on hard to fill positions.

• Teacher job board Eteach.com has opened an office in Stevenage. The company said the move is in responding to the “urgent” demand for permanent teaching staff in the East of England area.

• Midlands-based recruiter Encore Personnel is launching a specialist driving division at its Derby branch. The Derby team will be recruiting both qualified and aspiring drivers across the Midlands region and will be led by branch manager Dave Walter.

Elsewhere, Encore is introducing a new service aimed at recruiting more senior roles for its supply chain and logistics clients. The new division will predominantly be based in Encore’s Birmingham office, but will also support the firm’s other nine offices across the Midlands, Yorkshire and the South.

• Nationwide recruiter Gi Group UK has opened a new office in Warrington. Gi Group Warrington, formerly based at Dolmans Lane, has moved its business to The Lodge on Tanners Lane, Warrington.

The branch will feature the company’s new branding and signage and will be led by branch manager David Toller.

2 May 2017
Construction & property, IT/Telecoms, Hospitality/Leisure

New to the market: 2-5 May 2017

• Bespoke staffing solutions provider Arthur Jackman Associates has moved into offices in Narborough, a small village located South of Leicester City Centre.

The office will also house the firm’s AJA SME Solutions, which was launched in March, to focus on finding talent for small and medium-sized businesses.

• Technical and engineering staffing specialist Gattaca has opened an office in Mexico City. The office is led by Mathias Mieville, the firm’s regional director for Latin America, who has been working with the company in Mexico since 2008.

• Job board Jobsite has launched a campaign aimed at educating office workers on the importance of IT professionals to the business.

The campaign is entitled ‘You Just Don't Get I.T.’ and features video revealing the first-hand experiences of IT workers and every day frustrations and stereotypes they face and tips helping IT professionals communicate their importance.

• Specialist Solutions UK has rebranded to Rice Technology. The rebrand also sees the forensic technology, science, environmental, technical sales and marketing staffing specialist unveil a new logo and website, while ‘recruitment experts’ has been added to the company’s tagline.

• Job board Temps in the City has launched. The site, launched by Emeca Beckford, who has experience working in the hospitality and customer service and commercial property industries, advertises jobs in hospitality, IT and general customer service industries across London.

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