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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.

20 April 2020
Recruitment Process Outsourcing, Transport & logistics, Agriculture, Creative/Digital/Media, Engineering, Charity & not-for-profit, Legal, IT/Telecoms, HR, Hospitality/Leisure, Healthcare/Medical, Apprentices/Grads/School leavers

NEW TO THE MARKET: 20-24 APRIL 2020

• Alexander Mann Solutions, a global recruitment process outsourcing and talent acquisition consulting services firm, has released its first self-developed technology platform. Hourly by Alexander Mann Solutions enables organisations to hire hourly workers faster and more precisely through a completely conversational experience from explore-to-offer, in a single built-for-mobile solution.

• Recruitment software firm Candidate.ID has developed TalentPipe.org, a free CRM matching initiative. Recruiters, recruitment marketers and sourcers can sign up to receive job alerts from employers. Employers looking for these skills can log their vacancies, and candidates are notified when there is a match. Employers can also request a list of potential candidates.

• Credentially, a software platform that helps healthcare companies hire and onboard clinical staff by automating the validation process, is offering its services free of charge to all NHS and UK healthcare organisations. Co-founder and CEO Dr Kit Latham, who is also an A&E doctor, says Credentially has been integral in hiring more than 2,000 volunteer GPs to the Covid Clinical Assessment Service (CCAS).

• The launch of Skills Miner from Enginuity has been brought forward from the summer to allow thousands of people in lockdown to have fun – and find out if they’ve got what it takes to transit from the virtual to the real world of engineering.

Enginuity, supported by The Princes Trust, is the new engineering skills organisation charged with creating skills solutions for individuals, educators and employers to help close the skills gap in engineering. Players of Skills Miner, which is based on Minecraft and aimed at all ages, will be guided to various levels, given assessments of their cerebral and dexterity strengths (which crucially they may never have realised) – then given a call to action to help them make an appropriate move through the gateway from the virtual to the real world of engineering and manufacturing.

The free game, set in an electric car showroom and factory, goes live on Tuesday 28 April. It is aimed at young people and in particular may benefit the 800,000 young people in the UK who come from disadvantaged backgrounds and would not otherwise be assessed by anyone in education, training and employment. Their talents often go unnoticed and unharnessed, and are of particular interest to game supporters – The Prince’s Trust.

• GeekTalent, a North-East provider of skills, talent and recruitment software solutions, has launched its GoCareer app, a career management tool designed to support those looking to reskill and secure a new job role in the uncertain employment market.

The app’s launch date was brought forward in response to the Covid-19 pandemic and is free for the first three months. GoCareer allows users to identify their core skills and build a unique CV, which the app then matches skills to job roles.

• Technology start-up inploi has expanded its online platform to stimulate workforce mobility during the current crisis by connecting jobseekers displaced by the Covid-19 pandemic with employment opportunities in essential industries across the UK. Initially focused on the hospitality sector, the inploi platform now includes jobs across industries ranging from agriculture to logistics and warehousing to charity and voluntary work.

• A new jobs initiative has been launched by North Wales-based JVP Group in response to the urgent demand for essential and key workers, and the impact on unemployment in North Wales due to the coronavirus pandemic.

Launched by JVP Group, Jobs in North Wales is a job site is focused on directly connecting jobseekers with employers in the region. JVP Group is now providing the online platform to employers to advertise key worker and essential roles, including volunteering opportunities, completely free of charge during the Covid-19 crisis.

• Konexo, a division of Eversheds Sutherland, has launched Resourcing+, an evolution of its existing resourcing service, which will be rolled out across its global network. Resourcing+ gives clients immediate and high quality legal talent on an hourly basis with the flexibility tailored to clients. Clients will be able to hire immediate, ad hoc support as an extension to their in-house team without having to commit to specific timeframes.

• Snack, a video chat roulette, has launched as a way for teams working remotely to stay in touch with each other. Snack is a Slack bot that enables teams to have virtual coffees: spontaneous, time-restricted video conversations with icebreakers.

According to developer Gajus Kuizinas, the lottery mechanism adds a fun and organic element to conversations because you never know who you will be talking to until after you see each other in the video room – just like how you would never know who you’ll bump into at the water cooler.

• Talent Beam, a strategic talent acquisition (TA) provider to global organisations, which launched last month in Manchester, has added to its feature product, The Talent Calculator – an external deep dive/healthcheck into a TA function.

With the global Covid-19 pandemic currently affecting most businesses, Talent Beam founder and director Neil Martin has now introduced a free short diagnostic tool, which allows any TA team to complete a short survey called The Talent Calculator – Diagnostic’. The survey takes about 15 minutes and will allow any company to rate their TA function and then compare this to a global and industry average. The new tool should help TA leads make decisions on what to prioritise in these changing times.

• WorkTaps, the mobile-first employee referral solution for hourly and deskless workforces, is from today offering its hiring software to businesses at no cost in response to the COVID-19 crisis. WorkTaps is a simple way for employees to tap their personal networks and enable a seamless and rapid recruiting machine. With mobile-first, tap-to-share communication, WorkTaps drives quality applicants faster than ever before.

• Recruiters working remotely may be interested to know that enterprise video communications firm Zoom has announced security enhancements with its upcoming Zoom 5.0 – a key milestone in the company’s 90-day plan to proactively identify, address, and enhance the security and privacy capabilities of the platform.

17 April 2020
IT/Telecoms

Start-up of the Month: NDC Tek Recruitment

The trio, who previously worked together at another agency, aim to stand out in the marketplace due to their sole focus of cloud & DevOps recruitment in the UK and Nordics especially, where they felt there was a gap in the market. In addition, the three founders are working towards cloud certifications (AWS/Azure/GCP), which they say will add credibility for candidates and clients, and be a stand-out feature of NDC Tek.

“By having the same certifications as a lot of their candidates/clients,” a spokesperson for the company told Recruiter, “it is only going to make them more credible when it comes to talking about the technology. They have the recruitment skills and by adding the technology knowledge it will take them to the next level.” 

“In addition, due to their extensive networks, many end-user clients ask them for advice or recommendations when they go to tender for their cloud projects. As a result, they have won many of their consulting/agency clients projects previously and will continue to do so.”

Looking ahead, the agency is looking to build the team with consultants that are passionate about the cloud & DevOps space and continue to cement NDC Tek’s unique place in the market.

The agency has partnered with start-up specialist Davidson Gray to provide its support services.

14 April 2020
Engineering, Executive search, IT/Telecoms, HR

NEW TO THE MARKET: 14-17 APRIL 2020

• Recruitment software firm Candidate.ID has launched ‘Furlough Connect’, a three-month managed service to help support employers inspire furloughed and contingent workforce. Employers provide content to fuel the campaigns and are presented with regular data on all employees’ interactions.

Scot McRae, co-founder of Candidate.ID, said: “Furlough Connect equips your HR and talent acquisition teams with the tools needed to identify, manage and quickly respond to Covid-19 associated risks for internal talent. Visual dashboards provide live visibility of trends across your organisation. With a user-friendly interface and mobile-first design, it has been designed to be easily adopted by remote employees.”

• GatedTalent, a platform that allows executives to share career successes and aspirations with top headhunters, is waiving all recruiter ‘Search and Connect’ and ‘GTMail’ fees for retained executive search firms until the end of September 2020. Click here to take advantage of the offer.

Jason Starr, president of Ikiru People, the company behind GatedTalent, said: “GatedTalent has grown rapidly over recent months, and now it’s time to give something back. By waving all recruiter fees, we are helping our clients and our members – it’s a win-win.”

• Global-Roles, a job board with the aim of making local to global recruitment easier, is now live. The aim is to create a one-stop board with a global reach allowing any agency to recruit locally or globally, with one registration for both agency and candidate.

Global-Roles is currently offering six weeks’ free unlimited job postings to help in the current global epidemic. This will be monitored and possibly extended, in an effort to try to reach out to as many agencies and candidates as possible.

• Global professional recruiting group Hays has launched a free online training portal aimed to help employers and teams grow the skills they need to function effectively and thrive during the Covid-19 crisis. Hays Learning is available to businesses of all sizes and offers three course areas covering remote working, wellbeing and health & safety. The remote working courses are designed to help improve worker efficiency when remote working and assist with planning their working days and working with a remote team.

• Emerging technology talent specialist mthree has launched its Aspire Scholarship, a 12-week online training course to help students graduating with STEM degrees or those taking their first steps on the career leader to become a full-stack java developer. The scholarship hopes to support those looking to secure full-time roles in the tech sector make a start during these uncertain times.

• Norman Broadbent has created a new offering to help stretched HR and talent acquisition teams to enable them to tap into the firm’s resources and expertise in different ways.

By segmenting the end-to-end process of mapping, identification, first approach, interview, final interview and offer, TA professionals can pick from a menu of services, enabling TA teams to manage demand peaks and troughs more effectively. Each stage of the process is optional and can be switched on or off quickly and charged accordingly, so TA professionals only pay for what the use.

• Talent Cloud, a joint venture partnership between Scott Davies (former CEO Hallam Medical and Recruiter Awards 2016 Recruitment Agency Leader of the Year) and Dean Sadler (CEO TribePad), is offering free access to its range of on-demand professional services, incorporating the full suite of TribePad technology, to all SME businesses.

As well as working with SMEs to digitally transform and automate recruitment processes, Talent Cloud recognises that although hiring may be put on hold, furloughed employees cannot be forgotten. To ensure they remain engaged and ready for the bounce, Talent Cloud can help businesses’ furloughed employees stay connected via its Talent Pool Communities, sharing news, company updates, advice and learning.

8 April 2020
Public sector, Creative/Digital/Media, Graduates/Apprentices/School leavers, Healthcare/Medical

NEW TO THE MARKET: 6-10 APRIL 2020

• Student career development platform Abintegro has launched its Early Talent Recruiting Service, helping the way graduate employers recruit. From today, graduate employers can use this free service to create a permanent digital presence on most UK university campuses, multi-post an unlimited number of jobs, internships and placements, and engage with a community of over 500 careers service staff nationwide.

• Colnort has launched a service model to deal with new IR35 regulations that take effect this month around companies and contractors working through limited companies or PSCs (personal service company). The new model calls for Colnort to become the service provider, taking on the IR35 responsibilities and absorbing all liability.

• Following on from its free job listings for the NHS, which it announced last week, Guardian Jobs has launched a supportive marketing campaign aimed at driving awareness and traffic to the ads. The creative campaign will feature across the Guardian, and will be leveraged across its digital and print channels, as well as investing paid support on social to speak to the Guardian audience and potential jobseekers.

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