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Tech & Tools: May/June 2025

Rise of native AI applicant tracking systems

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.

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.

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

CONTRACTS & DEALS: 28 APRIL-2 MAY 2025

This week’s new contracts & deals include: 55/Redefined, AMS, In2Dialog

DEI, Diversity/Inclusion 28 April 2025

NEW TO THE MARKET: 28 APRIL-2 MAY 2025

This week’s new launches include: Jobmatch Sweden, Matchtech, Meet Life Sciences, Right Management, Synergy

Major recruiting drive for Amazon across UK

Online retailer Amazon is to create over 2,000 new permanent jobs in the UK over the next two years, including 600 at a new distribution centre in Hemel Hempstead, which opened yesterday.

UK & IRELAND Appointments: Macmillan Davies Hodes promotes Curtin to Manchester director

HR recruiter Macmillan Davies Hodes (MDH) has promoted Noreen Curtin from senior consultant to associate director in their Manchester office.
Your recruitment business 6 September 2012

Contracts/Deals: Alfresco to use Fairsail HCM solution

Enterprise content management provider Alfresco has selected software firm Fairsail’s human capital management (HCM) solution Swiftsure.
Your recruitment business 6 September 2012

INTERNATIONAL Philippines: BPO industry prepares for continued growth

The business process outsourcing (BPO) industry in the Philippines is gearing up for further growth, as it is projected to be worth $25bn (£1.57bn) by 2016, and likely to require at least 120,000 further workers.

INTERNATIONAL US: Video interview use quadruples to two in three firms

Nearly two in three (63%) of human resources managers say their company frequently conducts job interviews via video – up from just 14% last year.

UK & IRELAND Appointments: Stonegate Pubs get recruitment head

Pub operator Stonegate Pub Company has appointed Holly Cunnington as head of recruitment.

HR technology spend to rise, finds Towers Watson

Nearly a third (31%) of companies are to increase their spending on HR technology in the coming year as change in HR department grows, finds a survey of 628 global organisations from professional services company Towers Watson.

UK & IRELAND Appointments: Vanilla Recruitment enters finance with Smith

Market Harborough recruiter Vanilla Recruitment has appointed Richard Smith to develop a new accountancy & finance division.
Your recruitment business 29 August 2012

INTERNATIONAL Appointments: Frazer Jones takes on Middle East director

Global HR recruiter Frazer Jones has appointed Gemma Nelson as an associate director in the Middle East, based in the firm’s Dubai office.
Your recruitment business 29 August 2012

Interims make change rather than fill gaps, says Russam

More interim managers in the UK are involved in change management than the traditional ‘gap-filling’ assignments, says a survey from interim management provider Russam GMS.
Your recruitment business 21 August 2012

INTERNATIONAL Japan: Gaming industry makes its move

In Japan, the social and mobile gaming industries “are absolutely king right now”, Michael J Case, managing director of Tokyo-based recruiter Wahl & Case tells Recruiter.
Your recruitment business 10 August 2012

INTERNATIONAL India: Advorto selects Covenant as distributor

Talent recruitment systems vendor Advorto has appointed HR and recruitment process outsourcing (RPO) services firm Covenant India as its distribution partner for India.

INTERNATIONAL Spain: Social media will kill other ways of hiring

Over half (55%) of Spanish HR professionals either do currently or will in the near future use social media to recruit now, and 30% go as far as saying that this will eliminate other methods of recruiting, reports news agency EFE.
In-house recruitment 2 August 2012

UK & IRELAND Appointments: Ryman gets Jones as HRD

Nadine Jones has been appointed as group HR director (HRD) across Theo Paphitis retail brands Boux Avenue, Robert Dyas and Ryman, responsible for the recruitment and development of the workforce.

UK & IRELAND Appointments: Naughton comes back to Oakleaf Partnership

Senior consultant Caroline Naughton has returned to specialist HR recruitment firm Oakleaf Partnership following a sabbatical from the company where she was writing a novel.

Contracts/Deals: Hays supplies permanent staff to Carlsberg UK

Carlsberg UK, brewer of several household name beers, has appointed recruiter Hays to supply permanent staff for roles in engineering, finance, HR, legal, office support, purchasing & logistics and sales & marketing roles.
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