Online start-up Get Me The Right Job (GMTRJ) is to adopt talent management provider Fairsail’s cloud offering.
GMTRJ has now automated its entire recruitment process from specifying vacancy requirements, through to advertising, inbound application handling, selection and placement.
Four in 10 welfare-to-work providers say procurement processes have failed to give providers sufficient scope for introducing innovative ways of delivering welfare to work services.
According to research from welfare-to-work trade body The Employment Related Services Association (ERSA), research also reveals that 40% thought government procurement timetables have been difficult.
Public sector recruiter The Capita Group has acquired the trade and assets of pensions administration and software business of NorthgateArinso for a consideration of £27.5m on a cash-free, debt-free basis.
Recruitment software provider Colleague Recruitment Software has fully integrated functionality with performance software provider Saber.
Engineering, science, technology and professional services recruiter Matchtech Group is beginning to reap the rewards of investment in sector and geographic diversification, according to a pre-close trading update for the year ended 31 July 2011.
Private equity specialist Graphite Capital has provided equity funding to enable education recruiter Teaching Personnel to buy supply teacher staffing specialist Protocol Education.
Graphite had backed the £45m management buy-out (MBO) of Teaching Personnel in July 2010.
Multi-sector recruiter Search Consultancy has appointed Shona McKenzie as account director for the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games.
McKenzie will lead a specialist recruitment team tasked with finding over 1,000 jobs for the games.
Bill Boorman
“A massive amount of hiring” in the future will come from social referrals, according to social media expert Bill Boorman.
A report from Forfás, Ireland’s policy advisory board for enterprise, trade, science, technology and innovation, has suggested that the computer games industry could create an additional 2,500 new jobs in the country in the next two years, reports the Irish Times.
Initio International, the group owning recruitment consultancy Longbridge, has announced the acquisition of legal, secretarial and PA recruiter King & Toben and generalist recruiter Contact Recruitment.
Both businesses will now operate under the Longbridge brand.