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Take a Netwalk on the kind side

A walk organised by TEAM raised awareness of isolation, as well as money for charity.

7 May 2025

Analytics functions to merge into single workforce intelligence organisation

What will talent intelligence look like in the future?

7 May 2025
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Redefining the role of humans at work

Talent leaders are in the midst of redefining work that will be “more pro-human than in any other point in human history”.

7 May 2025
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Social recruiting: May/June 2025

Whether you’ve been trekking up a hill, making a team look brill, donating chocs to fill [a foodbank] or walking a mill-ion steps, you lot have been busy!

APPOINTMENTS: 5-9 MAY 2025

This week’s appointments include: Zellis

PeopleIT/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

Contractors at GSK accused of working outside IR35 rules

HM Revenue & Customs has written to almost 1,500 contractors claiming they have been incorrectly working outside IR35 rules.

Life sciences, IT/Telecoms 27 August 2019

Recruiter calls for offices to opt for rescue dogs

Companies have been urged to consider a rescue dog as their next office dog by a recruiter who combines running a recruitment agency with rehoming dogs from a shelter in Lanzarote.

Lighter Side 23 August 2019

Social enterprise cafés create jobs in Northern Ireland

A social enterprise in Northern Ireland is creating 20 jobs for people with disabilities and long-term health conditions at two new cafés.

Hospitality/Leisure 23 August 2019

Birmingham café seeks feline fan

Are you mad about cats? Then we have the purr-fect role for you.

NEW TO THE MARKET: 19-23 AUGUST 2019

This week’s launches include: Robert Walters

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Recruiters warned of legal risk in dealings with discriminatory employers

Recruiters must be prepared to walk away from clients who think they can get away with asking them to discard female candidates of childbearing age from the recruitment process.

22 August 2019

Recruitment M&A activity in the UK returns to pre-recession levels

Mergers and acquisitions involving UK recruiters have returned to pre-recession levels, with a 167% increase in deals over the past two years on the same period a decade ago.

22 August 2019

Graduates call for clearer phrasing in job ads

Have you ever placed an advert for a graduate recruitment consultant, who must be a ‘self-starter’ with an ‘entrepreneurial mindset’ and something of a ‘ninja’?

Recruiters warned to mind their language in job ads

Recruiters have been warned not to risk damaging their reputation by including swearing in job adverts they place.

21 August 2019

FINANCIALS: Empresaria Group posts rise in gross profit but fall in revenue

International specialist staffing group Empresaria Group has seen a 6% increase in net fee income year-on-year, according to unaudited interim results for the six-month period ended 30 June 2019.

Recruiter charity Astriid nominated for charity tech award

Recruiter’s Charity of The Year has been shortlisted for third sector business and management magazine Charity Times’ Best Use Of Technology Award.

Charity & not-for-profit 21 August 2019

CONTRACTS & DEALS: 19-23 AUGUST 2019

This week’s contracts and deals include: Ascensos, Bullhorn, Ceridian, Cordant People, Resume-Library

‘Some sort of immigration permission’ needed for EU workers say employment lawyers

Recruiters should prepare for EU workers gaining some form of permission to work in the UK from November of this year.

Legislation 20 August 2019

Hospital jobs in Northamptonshire offer best of both worlds

Northamptonshire NHS is on a summer recruitment drive for various nursing and doctor roles at NHS Trusts across the county.

Don’t stay in the dark with jobs at Northway Mushrooms

A Northern Ireland enterprise is creating 20 new jobs at new mushroom composting facility in Co Tyrone.

Top 10 most bizarre interview questions heard by candidates

What’s the weirdest question you’ve ever asked a candidate? We bet it can’t beat ‘Where do you see Arnold Schwarzenegger in five years’ time?’…

Lighter Side 20 August 2019
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