Brookson buys Boomerang Funding to help start-ups

Brookson, the specialist accountants for contractors, freelancers and small businesses, has acquired Boomerang Funding, the first of a number of acquisitions in which the company is interested.

Mobile-friendly searching

Google recently finished rolling out its ‘mobile-friendly algorithm boost’. This means that mobile-friendly websites appear higher up the search results if the user is searching on a mobile phone. Those that aren’t mobile-ready may find themselves slipping down the rankings.

Transitioning from refugee to worker

A not-for-profit social enterprise company is venturing into an area that most employers and recruitment agencies fear to tread. Transitions London, founded in 2010, aims to help arguably the most marginalised group in the UK labour market: refugees. The figures tell their own story, with the unemployment rate for refugees at around 70%, according to a Department of Work and Pensions research paper in 2002, far higher than for the general population.

Airswift grows its global mobility

Global mobility will be “the biggest growth area” for Airswift, the company recently formed by the merger of Air Energi and Swift Technical Resources, as it expands its core services, chief executive Peter Searle has told Recruiter.

Primary Care People insures to get more GPs in the house

A medical recruitment company has launched a free insurance product for GPs on its books that the firm’s managing director expects will ease the current shortage of GPs in the NHS.

Entrepreneur Jones becomes government’s SME Rep

The Crown Commercial Service, an executive agency of the Cabinet Office, has appointed entrepreneur and author Emma Jones MBE as small business crown representative.

RecruitMyBuddy hits on referral recruitment model

Referral recruitment specialist RecruitMyBuddy has launched.