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

Positive turnaround in Lloyds Banking Group’s employer brand

There has been a positive turn around in perceptions of Lloyds Banking Group’s employer brand, according to a senior resourcing executive at the bank.
Your recruitment business 20 June 2013

Human capital to get metric treatment from CIPD

The Chartered Institute for Personnel and Development (CIPD) will work with the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA) to develop human capital metrics, the HR body’s chief has said.
Your recruitment business 20 June 2013

PageGroup voices support for trade body mergers

PageGroup has become the first staffing agency to come out publicly in favour of the merger of bodies representing the recruitment industry. It follows recent reports that the REC intends to initiate informal soundings with other trade bodies.
Your recruitment business, Companies 20 June 2013

Staffing tops HR’s draining queries list finds Transversal

HR decision makers find large portions of their time sucked up in handling routine calls and emails from employees, with staffing queries the most frequent, finds research by knowledge base vendor Transversal.
Your recruitment business, In-house recruitment 19 June 2013

Strength-based recruitment builds grad diversity, says Capp

A strength-based approach to recruitment is having a positive impact on the diversity of those entering the workforce at graduate level, a Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) conference has heard.
Your recruitment business 19 June 2013

Slower labour turnover ups stakes in war for talent, finds CIPD/Hays research

The proportion of firms reporting a rise in competition for well-qualified talent has risen threefold over the last four years, according to the CIPD/Hays Resourcing and Talent Planning Survey 2013.
Your recruitment business, In-house recruitment 19 June 2013

More pharma expansion in Northern Ireland as Norbrook hires

Northern Ireland-based veterinary pharmaceuticals maker Norbrook Laboratories is to take on 400 new staff as it pushes to meet expectations of further demand from global markets.
Your recruitment business 18 June 2013

Friday Teasers: Employment Law - HR Connect Quiz 2013 ROUND FIVE

How’s your Employment Law know-how? Facilitated by law firm Bird & Bird, a recent meeting of London HR Connection included an employment law quiz. Thanks to both for allowing us to use it here.
14 June 2013

Business services firm TMF gets HR and payroll head

Business services company TMF Group has appointed Deborah Williams as global head of its HR and payroll provision.
Your recruitment business, In-house recruitment 14 June 2013

Penna gets Hart for government and health interims

HR firm Penna has taken on Nick Hart as a senior consultant in its executive interim recruitment team, focusing on central government and health.
Your recruitment business 14 June 2013

Identify FIRM risks

In-house recruiters can make themselves “a bit more useful” by using their expertise to identify risks to their employers’ business strategy, members of the FIRM (Forum for In-House Recruitment Managers) have heard.
Your recruitment business, In-house recruitment 13 June 2013

Japan: land of the recruiting giants

Japanese recruitment giants must not be taken lightly as they expand overseas, the Asia-Pacific managing director of energy and earth sciences recruiter EarthStream Global has said.
Your recruitment business, In-house recruitment 13 June 2013

CEB: no analytics for analytics’ sake

Analytics are high on the priority list in talent resourcing and recruiting circles in 2013, but too many organisations are “doing analytics for analytics’ sake”, according to Jean Martin, executive director of the human resources practice of CEB’s (formerly Corporate Executive Board) Corporate Leadership Council.
In-house recruitment 13 June 2013

Ernst & Young leads drive to set UK equality standard

Ernst & Young (E&Y) has launched a new National Equality Standard (NES) developed ‘by business for business’ that is expected to go to market in early autumn.
Your recruitment business, In-house recruitment 13 June 2013

FINANCIALS: Advantage, Badenoch & Clark, Digby Morgan, Judd Farris report

Four contrasting sets of results have been filed at Companies House by healthcare, nursing and care recruiter Advantage Healthcare Group, Randstad-owned HR specialist Digby Morgan, and two Adecco Group firms, multi-sector professional recruiter Badenoch & Clark, and property specialist Judd Farris.
Your recruitment business, Companies 13 June 2013

Barclays Retail Business Banking takes on trio

Barclays UK Retail Business Banking (RBB) has taken on three new hires in its resourcing and talent acquisition department.
Your recruitment business, In-house recruitment 12 June 2013
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