Engineering

Recruitment industry voices say little detail on workforce from the Chancellor

Recruitment industry observers have criticised Chancellor Rachel Reeves’s failure to move the UK ahead in specific commitments to workforce issues.

Legislation/Regulation, Temporary workforce 12 June 2025

STEM recruiter acquires construction training firm 3B Training

Morson Group has acquired Wigan-based 3B Training to expand its construction skills offering.

Your business, Your recruitment business 12 June 2025

Green energy firm aims to bring skilled jobs to Kent

A green energy company is set to create more than 100 jobs by 2027 with the proposed opening of a £120m plant in Kent.

Your business, Your recruitment business 4 June 2025

Hays appoints new CEO UK and Ireland

Recruitment and workforce solutions specialist Hays has appointed Thomas Way (pictured) as CEO of Hays UK and Ireland.

Your recruitment business 2 June 2025

£1.5bn defence spending will create highly-skilled jobs in the UK

The UK government is to create more than 1,000 new jobs as a result of a £1.5bn defence investment.

Legislation/Regulation, Your business 2 June 2025

Government’s apprenticeship budget refocuses to ‘rebuild Britain’

The government has made radical changes to skills and training, including a refocus away from higher-level apprenticeship funding.

Your business, Your recruitment business 27 May 2025

REC urges government to build on success of Restart Scheme

The Recruitment & Employment Confederation (REC) is urging the government to build on the success of the Restart Scheme.

Your business, Your recruitment business 27 May 2025

Energy recruitment firm launches in Aberdeen

Specialist recruitment firm Agilient Talent Partners has launched in Aberdeen, focusing on permanent hiring within the energy sector.

Your recruitment business 27 May 2025

International manufacturer invests £170m in North Wales facility

Around 140 jobs will be created in North Wales after Knauf Insulation unveiled plans to invest £170m in a state-of-the-art manufacturing facility.

Your recruitment business 20 May 2025

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Recruitment and resourcing professionals have found themselves with plenty to do, as this buoyant industry embraces new technology and invests in younger talent
Analysis, Your recruitment business 11 December 2012

Encore Personnel launches app across platforms

Technical and blue collar recruiter Encore Personnel has launched its new mobile app for jobseekers.
Your recruitment business 11 December 2012

UK Census 2011 released: population better educated, more diverse

The UK population became better educated, more ethnically diverse and older between 2001 and 2011, according to the census data released today for 2011.
Your recruitment business 11 December 2012

Time for Time 4 expansion into the permanent market

Previously working solely with temp roles, multi-sector agency Time 4 Recruitment has expanded into the permanent and freelance market.
Your recruitment business 6 December 2012

Engineers AMEC set to hire 300 for new Kuwaiti refinery

International engineering and project management company AMEC expects to hire 300 people following a $528m (£328m) contract award by the Kuwait National Petroleum Company for a new oil refinery at Al Zour, Kuwait.
Your recruitment business, In-house recruitment 5 December 2012

Jaguar Land Rover gets new HRD from Diageo

Automaker Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) will appoint new HR director Simon Lenton, effective 14 January 2013.
Your recruitment business, In-house recruitment 4 December 2012

IT recruiter Outsource acquires Bramlove

Independent IT recruiter Outsource UK had acquired Manchester-based defence and engineering recruiter Bramlove.
Your recruitment business 4 December 2012

Osborne to go for growth with gas announcement in statement tomorrow

It is being widely reported that Chancellor George Osborne will use tomorrow’s Autumn Statement to ratify as many as 30 new gas-fired power stations and make moves towards allowing further shale gas exploitation – a controversial procedure better known as ‘fracking’.
Your recruitment business, In-house recruitment 4 December 2012

Germany: VW agrees equal pay for temps in global charter

Automaker Volkswagen (VW) Group has signed a charter laying down principles for the use of temporary work throughout the company.
Your recruitment business, In-house recruitment 4 December 2012

Recruiters hit back as pressure builds on expenses schemes

As critics of expenses schemes prepare for an Early Day Motion in parliament in an attempt to have measures to outlaw them included in chancellor George Osborne’s Autumn Statement on Wednesday, recruiters and others working in the recruitment sector have defended the use of such schemes.
Your recruitment business, Legislation/Regulation 3 December 2012

Forties People hires Deller for London area

Family-run, equal opportunities recruitment agency campaigner Forties People has appointed Suzanne Deller as recruitment consultant for the London area.
Your recruitment business 3 December 2012

Axon Resourcing brings in Butler and Barry

Recruitment firm Axon Resourcing has appointed new senior recruitment consultants Sinead Barry and Edward Butler to its teams in the North-West and West Midlands.
Your recruitment business, Companies 3 December 2012

TW Network gets Top Gear ops director

Industrial temp agency TW Network has appointed James Mallick as operations director.
Your recruitment business 30 November 2012

Resource Group appoints Bull director for consolidated recruitment division

Mark Bull, the former UK group operations director at multi-sector agency Now Recruitment, has been appointed director at technical recruiter Real-Time Consultants (RTC), as the business’s offering is restructured following its purchase earlier this year by Resource Group.
Your recruitment business 29 November 2012

Qube Recruitment brings in Skerritt from Adecco

Independent commercial and engineering recruiter Qube Recruitment has taken on new consultant Hannah Skerritt.
Your recruitment business, Companies 28 November 2012

Community recycling specialists looking to expand

As landfills get fuller, a specialist computer and IT waste recycling centre in Leeds says it is set to double its workforce and quadruple its turnover in 2013.
Your recruitment business, In-house recruitment 27 November 2012
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