Creative/Digital/Media

BBC Studios appoints new director of HR

The BBC has appointed Jermaine Daw (pictured) as director of HR for BBC Studios, effective in June. 

Your business 28 May 2025

NEW TO THE MARKET: 27-30 MAY 2025

This week’s new launches include: Aston University, Four Squared Recruitment, Gi Group UK, itris X, ManpowerGroup

Supplier, Your business 27 May 2025

Human skills as important as ‘oven-ready’ tech skills

The UK skills landscape is experiencing rapid and regular turnover as employers look for “oven-ready talent” with much in-demand technical skills.

Technology, Your business 20 May 2025

UK Hiring Taskforce launches to develop new hiring strategies

A UK Hiring Taskforce was launched on Friday [16 May 2025] at the Houses of Parliament to develop strategy, technology and policy for “the end-to-end process of hiring in as new a way as possible”.

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Org Group acquires Manchester-based tech recruiting firm

Multinational professional services provider Org Group has acquired Manchester-based technology recruiting firm Venturi.

NEW TO THE MARKET: 12-16 MAY 2025

This week’s new launches include: Eames Consulting, Eightfold AI, SF Recruitment

UK-INDIA FTA: Financially beneficial for firms to second Indian workers to the UK

Following the news that the UK and India have agreed a trade deal, what will that mean for mobility of workers?

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Tech & Tools: May/June 2025

Rise of native AI applicant tracking systems

CONTRACTS & DEALS: 5-9 MAY 2025

This week’s new contracts & deals include: Firmus Consulting

Vodafone tech labs among job-creating ICT investments

Telecommunications firm Vodafone has announced it will open a new technology lab and incubation centre in London’s Tech City, offering advice and support to entrepreneurs, as one of several boosts to the UK information and communications technology (ICT) industry being announced today.

UK & IRELAND Appointments: 4MAT gets Soane

Recruitment and resourcing website and marketing agency 4MAT has appointed Andrew Soane as client development director.

Students not comfortable with Facebooking firms

In a recent survey of nearly 1,500 undergraduates through careers site targetjobs.co.uk, university students said they did not want to interact with employers on Facebook and certainly didn’t want to share with them the more personal details of their lives.

Facebook hires engineers in Central London office

Social network Facebook is hiring for a new engineering team in London, it announces in a blog post on the website.

Product launch: Soap recruiting marketing professionals from £195

Creative, digital, marketing and PR recruiter Soap Recruitment has launched Soap Skinny, an online fixed fee recruitment service.

Britain’s biggest firms boast 25m social media connections

Britain’s largest firms have 19m Facebook fans, 1.9m followers on LinkedIn and 1.7m on Twitter.

UK & IRELAND Appointments: VMA Group promotes Phelps

Communications, investor relations and HR recruiter VMA Group has promoted Carla Phelps from researcher to consultant in its internal communications practice.

Word jobs fastest growing in digital space in Q2, finds Freelancer.com

Microsoft Word jobs was the fastest growing job category in Q2 2012 among 190,000 digital jobs posted on outsourcing marketplace Freelancer.co.uk.

Mobile specialist jobs are booming

Can you find enough Stylists, Pioneers or Jugglers to fill your mobile specialist vacancies? If not, you’re not alone: jobs for such mobile specialists are booming as financial service providers increasingly look to put in place mobile payment options, the former head of mobile banking at RBS told a London audience on Wednesday.

Paper applications remain strong in Germany

Even in the age of the applicant tracking system, the jobsite, and smartphone apps for searching and applying for jobs, there is still a place for the paper application in Germany, Recruiter learns.

Contracts/Deals: Freelancer acquires Scriptlance

Outsourcing and crowdsourcing marketplace Freelancer.com has acquired Canadian freelance marketplace Scriptlance in an undisclosed deal.

Facebook refuses to comment on job site rumour

Social network Facebook has told Recruiter it is not commenting on a rumour that it is due to launch a jobs board soon.

UK & IRELAND Appointments: VMA Group gets Stone

Communications, investor relations and HR recruiter VMA group has taken on Lucy Stone as a senior consultant in the external communications practice of its London office.

UK & IRELAND Appointments: VMA Group promotes Mazzei

Communications, investor relations and HR recruiter VMA Group has promoted Julie Mazzei to managing consultant of its communications team in Manchester.

Product launch: JobVidi enters social recruitment marketplace

Social recruitment service JobVidi has launched.
29 June 2012

Execs look to get on the move, not just chase money

Job satisfaction comes out as the top motivating factor for UK managers and executives in a survey that also finds one in six of these workers are actively looking for a new role.
29 June 2012
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