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APPOINTMENTS: 5-9 MAY 2025

This week’s appointments include: Zellis

IT/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

Elite Leaders appoints new Executive Team member

Elite Leaders is delighted to announce the appointment of Chris O’Connell to its Executive team.

People 1 May 2025

Humly acquires London-based education recruiter

Digital education recruitment platform Humly has finalised the purchase of London-based supply agency Future Education.

HMRC to ‘revise’ IR35 CEST tool

The government has announced that its Check Employment Status for Tax (CEST) tool will be “revised” from today [30 April 2025].

APSCo briefs House of Lords on more amendments to Employment Rights Bill

Trade body APSCo has warned Peers of urgent amendments needed to the Employment Rights Bill, which must be addressed before it reaches Royal Assent.

Legislation 30 April 2025

PageGroup promotes two

Global recruiter PageGroup has promoted two senior executives in the Greater China region.
5 December 2014

Nicholas Associates appoints recruitment head

Sheffield national staffing and business consultancy Nicholas Associates has appointed Peter Bone as head of recruitment.
5 December 2014

Anderson rejoins NES

Lee Anderson has rejoined specialist oil & gas engineering recruiter NES Global Talent as associate director in its Glasgow office.
Engineering 5 December 2014

MBN welcomes three

Niche insight and analytics recruiter MBN has hired Hannah Scheiffele, Hassan Allam and Layla Tamnat to its recruitment team.
5 December 2014

HCIG appoints NED

Human Capital Investment Group has appointed NES Global Talent founder Geoff Lloyd as non-executive director.
5 December 2014

Saunders joins CTPartners

Global retained executive search firm CTPartners has appointed Vincent Saunders as principal in its San Francisco office.
Executive search 5 December 2014

Fewer candidates available for permanent jobs

The number of job candidates available for permanent vacancies fell in November, according to a report from the Recruitment & Employment Federation (REC).
5 December 2014

FINANCIALS: Servoca reports gross profit growth of 15.4%

Profit growth and “significant” improvement in group performance characterised the preliminary unaudited year-end results announced today for multi-sector recruiter Servoca.
Education, Public sector 4 December 2014

Most flexible migrant workers in the Netherlands come from Poland

Dutch staffing agencies are using more low skilled Polish workers and giving them longer contracts than they used to, according to temporary employment agency association ABU.
Industrial/Manufacturing 4 December 2014

Tax lost through temporary workers’ expenses ‘overestimated’

The government has been accused of overestimating the loss of income tax associated with temporary workers operating via umbrella companies and claiming tax deductable expenses.
4 December 2014

Hays acquires majority share of Veredus

Global specialist recruiter Hays has acquired 80% of US IT recruiter Veredus for an initial cash consideration of about US$44m (£28m) on a cash-free/debt-free basis.
4 December 2014

Autumn Statement: What recruiters need to know

With measures affecting apprenticeships, umbrella organisations, and investment in the NHS and UK’s infrastructure, this year’s Autumn Statement is significant for the recruitment industry.
3 December 2014

Autumn Statement set to contain measures affecting the recruitment industry

The Autumn Statement is set to contain a number of measures relevant for the recruitment industry.

CTPartners completes Neumann acquisition

CTPartners Executive Search has completed its acquisition of Austrian-based executive search and leadership consulting firm Neumann.
IT/Telecoms, Executive search 3 December 2014

Staffgroup appoints Slipper as first CFO

Staffgroup, the parent company of specialist international recruitment brands Eurostaff and Earthstaff, has appointed its first chief financial officer, James Slipper.
3 December 2014

TheJobPost wins £100k funding from Innovate UK

Recruitment crowdsourcing platform TheJobPost has received funding of £100k from UK innovation agency Innovate UK.
3 December 2014
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