HR

CONTRACTS & DEALS: 12-16 MAY 2025

This week’s new contracts & deals include: Henley Business School, ServiceNow, The Curve Group, Think, UKG

Your business, Your recruitment business 14 May 2025
Analysis

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
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Tech & Tools: May/June 2025

Rise of native AI applicant tracking systems

Your business, Your recruitment business 7 May 2025
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Soundbites: May/June 2025

Which proposed aspects would you like to see removed from the Employment Rights Bill?

Supplier, Your business 7 May 2025

APPOINTMENTS: 5-9 MAY 2025

This week’s appointments include: Zellis

Supplier, Your business 6 May 2025

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.

Technology, Your business 6 May 2025

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.

Advice, Your business 2 May 2025

Policy changes leave US frontline workers nervous about jobs

Global trade policy changes are leaving US frontline workers nervous, angry and stressed out about potential effects on their jobs.

Temporary workforce, Your business 30 April 2025

APPOINTMENTS: 28 APRIL-2 MAY 2025

This week’s appointments include: Eames Consulting, Faststream Recruitment Group, Gi Group, Heidrick & Struggles, Oyster, Starfish Search, Sellick Partnership

Supplier, Your business 28 April 2025

Adecco aims to up 75% employee retention rate with new HR chief

Recruitment and staffing giant Adecco tells recruiter.co.uk that employee retention is its number one priority, and the key challenge for newly-appointed chief HR officer Mark De Smedt.
Your recruitment business 26 November 2013

Profit doubles at Caan’s Human Capital Investment Group

Recruitment group Human Capital Investment Group (HCIG), owned by James Caan’s private equity business Hamilton Bradshaw, has seen its profits double.
HOT 100 25 November 2013

French HR firm Synergie makes Spanish acquisition

French-based HR and employment services firm Synergie Group has acquired Spanish temporary recruitment agency Solempleo for €12m (£10m).
Your recruitment business 21 November 2013

Fairsail brings recruitment and HR solution to law firm Keoghs

HR software tool Fairsail has been deployed at claims-focused law firm Keoghs, which has over 1,200 staff across the UK.
Your recruitment business, In-house recruitment 20 November 2013

UK agency work means forced labour threat, says Queen’s Belfast law school

A new report suggests that the UK is especially susceptible to forced labour because agency work is twice as prevalent as in any other EU country.
Your recruitment business, Legislation/Regulation 18 November 2013

360 recruiters no longer top dog, says PwC recruitment chief

The days of the versatile ‘360 degree’ recruiter who can do a bit of everything are numbered, according to Peter Wareham, PwC's head of experienced hire recruitment.
Your recruitment business 18 November 2013

Oakleaf Partnership recruits Snowdon on commerce team

Luke Snowdon has joined HR recruiter Oakleaf Partnership as a senior consultant within the commerce team, focusing on clients across engineering, manufacturing, property and construction.
Your recruitment business 15 November 2013

Sector Analysis Risk

As risk develops as a profession, recruiters face both challenges and opportunities
Analysis, Your recruitment business 13 November 2013

Innovate or lose out

HR directors believe RPO firms are missing out by not being innovative in process or people. DeeDee Doke reports
Analysis, In-house recruitment 13 November 2013

Savile Group to be acquired by Penna for £1.1m

HR firm Penna has agreed to acquire HR outsourcing firm Savile Group, with Penna’s chair Stephen Rowlinson saying the deal will create a broader service and the possibility of reducing administration costs.
Your recruitment business 12 November 2013

Other Blair kid also a recruitment agent - of sorts

News this week appears to confirm what may be a surprise to some recruiter.co.uk readers: the Blair family talent lies not in politics, but in talent management.
Your recruitment business 12 November 2013

2013 HOT 100: HOT 10 professional recruiters revealed

The November issue of Recruiter will feature the 2013 Recruiter HOT 100, the eighth edition of the benchmark league table of the UK recruitment sector’s most efficient companies, as measured by gross profit (GP) per head, or net fee income.
Your recruitment business, HOT 100 12 November 2013

In-house recruiters prioritise money saving over employer brand

A survey of 200 in-house recruiters from recruitment agency VMA Group has found that cost saving is a bigger driver than control of the employer brand for keeping recruitment functions in-house.
Your recruitment business, In-house recruitment 11 November 2013

CIPD survey suggests ‘measured approach’ to jobs as economy improves

Employers are in general unlikely to kick-start hiring bonanzas if the economic uptick continues, finds the latest CIPD/SuccessFactors Labour Market Outlook, available online, carried out by YouGov.
Your recruitment business, In-house recruitment 11 November 2013

Never mind the expense, executive search firms can still play an important role

External executive search firms may be expensive but they still have an important role in meeting talent needs, in-house executive search teams told this week’s European Executive Search Congress.
Your recruitment business, In-house recruitment 8 November 2013

HR recruiter Oakleaf brings in senior pair

HR recruitment firm Oakleaf Partnership has taken on two senior consultants, one of whom was previously a professional rugby player with London Irish.
Your recruitment business 8 November 2013
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