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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

Aspiring pilots can apply to join fully-funded training programme

Jet2.com has announced the launch of a fully-funded pilot training programme, giving up to 60 aspiring pilots the opportunity to fly for the airline without having to self-fund.

Your business 13 May 2025

PM Starmer unveils White Paper to reform immigration system

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer today unveiled the government’s Immigration white paper “to reduce migration” and strengthen the UK’s borders.

Legislation/Regulation, Your business 12 May 2025

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?

Emerging talent, Legislation/Regulation 9 May 2025

NEW TO THE MARKET: 5-9 MAY 2025

This week’s new launches include: Heidrick & Struggles, Matrix, ProdigyPB, Project Brains

Supplier, Technology 6 May 2025

National student lettings agency launches apprenticeship scheme

A student lettings agency based in Loughborough is helping young professionals kickstart their careers with a new apprenticeship scheme.

Your business 25 April 2025

Californian master plan calls for new statewide collaborative to align education, training and hiring needs

In the US, the state of California is proposing to launch digital career passports for the labour market.

Your business, Your recruitment business 14 April 2025

CONTRACTS & DEALS: 24-28 FEBRUARY 2025

This week’s new contracts & deals include: BearTech, Graduate Career Solutions, inploi, PureGym, SnappCV

Your business, Your recruitment business 25 February 2025

APPOINTMENTS: 9-13 DECEMBER 2024

This week’s appointments include: Aspire, Caroola Group, Heidrick & Struggles

Your business, Your recruitment business 13 December 2024

'Graduates only' job spec causes degree of angst at TUC

Controversy over the recruitment process for a job at the Trades Union Congress (TUC) that specified it was for graduates only has taken on wider implications at the organisation, The Guardian reports.

Your recruitment business, In-house recruitment 10 December 2012

Clean-up of Sellafield site to bring 500 new jobs

Accelerating the safe and efficient clean-up of nuclear site Sellafield will create 500 new jobs, energy minister John Hayes announced yesterday.

Your recruitment business, In-house recruitment 7 December 2012

Blears’ Parliamentary Bill looks to make advertising unpaid internships illegal

Former cabinet minister Hazel Blears MP yesterday [5 December] read a bill to the House of Commons that seeks to “prohibit the advertising of long-term unpaid internships” and further regulate conditions of employment for paid internships.

Your recruitment business, In-house recruitment 6 December 2012

New graduate scheme at risk management firm DNV

Risk management and sustainability services provider DNV has established a UK graduate programme to develop new talent in the energy and maritime industries.

Your recruitment business, In-house recruitment 4 December 2012

Product launch: Job Basket gets jobseekers talking with GuideCast

Job and career site Job Basket has launched a fully mobile solution GuideCast, described by its developer Alex McAuley as “a hybrid of a forum and a real-time chat app” for jobseekers.

Your recruitment business 28 November 2012

‘Everyone likes apprenticeships’, says former Dragon Richard, but change needed

A review written by former TV Dragon Doug Richard sets out a number of recommendations for improving apprenticeships – and takes as its starting point the idea that “everyone likes apprenticeships… or at least the notion of them”.

Your recruitment business, In-house recruitment 27 November 2012

Sainsbury’s to recruit 10,000 more to meet convenience store expansion

Sainsbury's is to create 10,000 new jobs in its convenience business over the next three years.

Your recruitment business, In-house recruitment 22 November 2012

Apex Hotels launches apprenticeship programme in Scotland

Apex Hotels has launched a Modern Apprenticeship (MA) scheme to attract school or college leavers from Edinburgh and Dundee to work in the hospitality industry.

Your recruitment business, In-house recruitment 21 November 2012

5Q Consultancy opens doors

A new rec-to-rec business, which focuses on appointments in the professional services recruitment sector, has just been established.

Your recruitment business 20 November 2012

£4.5m scholarship fund will help build BP’s talent pipeline from all backgrounds

A £4.5m scholarship fund for undergraduates will encourage those who might be put off attending university by financial circumstances.

Your recruitment business, In-house recruitment 20 November 2012

Talent Retention Solution expands to include students and graduates

The Talent Retention Solution (TRS), a national web-based system, which helps match skilled employees facing redundancy to growing UK companies in advanced manufacturing and engineering, is to be expanded to include graduates and students.

Your recruitment business 19 November 2012

Former Apprentice McQueen gives students lessons in recruitment

Recruitment agency Raw Talent Academy (RTA) has extended its links with Harrow College to offer students an internship in recruitment.

Your recruitment business 16 November 2012

Canadian pension fund benefits from global talent focus

London is a “very critical” source of investment talent recruited to help 18m Canadians realise sustainable and stable financial results in their retirement security, according to Saylor Millitz-Lee, senior vice president human resources for the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB).

Your recruitment business, In-house recruitment 15 November 2012