Randstad starts tender offer for Monster

Recruitment giant Randstad has began its previously announced tender offer for any and all outstanding shares of global job site Monster Worldwide.

Retiring athletes should go into recruitment, says ex-Olympian

Returning Team GB athletes, thinking about retiring from their respective sports, would do well to consider a career in recruitment, according to former Olympian and recruiter Robert Parker.

Toby Culshaw: Diversity and financial returns: are we doomed to failure?

Many firms are pushing to increase their leadership diversity without addressing core cultural issues, which meant they didn’t have diverse leadership in the first place. Or as one senior female leader put it when we discussed this: “The same problems persist – they are simply hiring men with boobs!” This in itself, and the positive action around increasing diversity in leadership, is causing some fundamental issues that, ironically, make it even harder today to ensure a diverse and stable leadership:

The life cycle of a successful recruitment consultancy - Part 3

With the growing pains of the start-up and momentum phases over and the business more than six years old and with 20+ staff, the primary challenge now facing your company is to create capital value.

Scottish Enterprise supports firms with workplace innovation service

Scotland’s main economic development agency Scottish Enterprise has launched the Scottish Enterprise workplace innovation service.

Amazon creates 1,500 jobs in Essex

Online retail giant Amazon is to create 1,500 new permanent jobs at a new fulfilment centre in Tilbury, Essex.

Macdonald Hotels and Resorts hires Phillips as director

International hotel group Macdonald Hotels and Resorts has appointed Liz Phillips as its new director of people.