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

Guidant Group drives off with AA deal

Outsourced recruitment solutions provider Guidant Group has secured a five-year deal with roadside recovery firm the AA.

In-house recruitment, Diversity/Inclusion 6 June 2017

Use of recruitment agencies set to plummet says CIPD research

More than half of HR professionals expect their organisation to cut their use of recruitment agencies this year, according to research.

Your recruitment business, Temporary workforce 5 June 2017

Community careers: The Workplace June 2017

The workplace experience should matter not only to you and your business, but more importantly to all your employees who spend over half of their waking time at work.

26 May 2017
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Anna-Jane Niznikowska: Look to Glastonbury for good staff

How Glastonbury ticket buyers possess all the qualities needed – not just for lower-skilled positions but even for the most high-powered jobs.

Your recruitment business 26 May 2017
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Aspiro-ing to work with mental health

Colin Cottell investigates the work of Aspiro, a social enterprise firm that gives help to those suffering from mental health problems get back into employment.

Supplier, In-house recruitment 26 May 2017
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My Brilliant Recruitment Career: Jennifer Letchet

We look into the background of people working in recruitment to see what their aspirations were when they were younger – and what makes them tick today...

Supplier, In-house recruitment 26 May 2017

Start-ups lead the way for growth, challenge, uncertainty and risk

One of the biggest challenges for the experienced in-house recruiter is getting the opportunity to do something new – a theme I’ve written about before.

In-house recruitment 26 May 2017

AI revolution: improving the entire employment cycle

From candidate sourcing and recruitment to retention, artificial intelligence (AI) can potentially help organisations improve their performance throughout the employment cycle, attendees heard at a recent morning seminar in London. DeeDee Doke reports from the event.

Your recruitment business, Technology 25 May 2017

TalkTalk appoints Dickinson chief people officer

TalkTalk has appointed Mark Dickinson chief people officer, with responsibility for group activities, including the overall HR strategy.

In-house recruitment 25 May 2017

Reversing the negatives: bringing back the noble in recruitment

When you take recruitment, and look at it through a microscope, what you actually find is a very noble and altruistic profession, whereby a successful placement for you means somebody in a job they love and a person earning a living.

 

24 May 2017
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Inclusive technology: removing the bias from the recruitment process

Data collected during the recruitment process can play a central part in informing a diversity & inclusion (D&I) strategy, but too many organisations are still not exploiting this information.

 

Technology, Diversity/Inclusion 24 May 2017
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Video technology: reinventing the interview

To recruit exceptional talent, employers have to challenge both their assumptions and established recruitment 
norms – and the interview itself needs significant reinvention

Trends, Technology 24 May 2017

Work holistically with recruitment and training to tackle talent shortages

Recruitment and training departments need unified key performance indicators (KPIs) so organisations can meet upcoming talent shortages head-on, reports Graham Simons.

Supplier, Technology 23 May 2017

Run for your life from the job interviews from hell

Asking a candidate “Do you like foot massages?” is perhaps the stand-out question to feature in Protecting.co.uk’s compilation of job interviews from hell.

22 May 2017

READERS’ VIEWS: 15-19 MAY 2017

A weekly round-up of comments on recruiter.co.uk stories

Opinion 22 May 2017

Employers should be forced to provide feedback says campaign

A campaign lobbying government for new rules requiring employers to give candidate feedback post interview has been “extremely well received”.

Emerging talent, Diversity/Inclusion 15 May 2017
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