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Tech & Tools: May/June 2025

Rise of native AI applicant tracking systems

Your business, Your recruitment business 7 May 2025
megaphone Opinion

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

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

Your business, Your recruitment business 28 April 2025

Impellam Group reports bumper Q1 results

Managed services and specialist staffing provider Impellam Group has seen year-on-year net fee income (NFI) increase 27.2% thanks to a strong performance in its temporary staffing and managed services divisions.
5 May 2016

In-house recruiters honoured at Recruiter Awards 2016

The best and brightest of the in-house recruitment world were among those recognised last night (4 May) at the 2016 Recruiter Awards, sponsored by Anderson Group.
4 May 2016

Recruiters urged to widen metrics to determine quality of hire

Employers should seek to determine the quality of hires by collecting data on the performance of new recruits, according to Peter Howes, vice president Success Factors, an SAP Company.
4 May 2016

Empresaria Group completes Ball and Hoolahan takeover

International staffing specialist Empresaria Group has completed its takeover of marketing recruiter Ball and Hoolahan.
4 May 2016

People Force International buys UK Staffing

HR, recruitment and immigration consultancy People Force International (PFI) has acquired Exeter-based recruiter UK Staffing for an undisclosed sum.
4 May 2016

Macildowie rebrands

Midlands-based recruitment consultancy Macildowie has rebranded.
3 May 2016

Sidekicks London teams up with charity Free Me

Recruiter Sidekicks London has joined forces with Free Me, a charity that provides care to women recovering from addictions and eating disorders, to launch employment scheme Work to Recover.
3 May 2016

Boom and bust: recruiting in the oil & gas industry

The price of oil has plummeted in the last two years and recruiters in the oil & gas industry have been hit hard with thousands of job losses across the sector. Colin Cottell reports
Analysis, Your recruitment business 27 April 2016

Gregory Allen: How talent professionals can be leaders

In an age of change, I am interested in how little we adapt to it. For example: I read many articles about the so-called ‘War for Talent’, identified in the early 1990s. Next, I hear this particular internecine conflict is over; but then, just as quickly, it’s back.
Your recruitment business, In-house recruitment 26 April 2016

Dash of inspiration

Kevin Blair is blending innovative technology, data and market intelligence with years of experience to change the face of recruitment at networking giant Cisco
Analysis, Your recruitment business 26 April 2016

Business Disability Forum launches Retaining Great Disabled Employees toolkit

UK national employers’ network Business Disability Forum (BDF) has launched a retention toolkit, Retaining Great Disabled Employees: From Ad Hoc to Best Practice.
25 April 2016

Is unethical behaviour going unpunished?

The characteristics that keep the recruitment industry performing at its peak could be the very ones that encourage unethical behaviour, claims Dr Niek Hoogervorst
Analysis, Your recruitment business 22 April 2016

Interviewers will search for middle-class indicators on name-blind CVs

Removing educational requirements from the recruitment process and using name-blind CVs will not stop interviewers looking for other indicators of a privileged background, according to Dr Louise Ashley of Royal Holloway, University of London.
22 April 2016

SThree trials ‘extra flexi-time’ for new parents

In a move no doubt welcomed by new parents, professional recruiter SThree is trialling an ‘extra flexi-time’ initiative that will allow employees, who have recently become fathers, to come in an hour later in the morning or leave an hour earlier in the afternoon to support family life.
22 April 2016

Saudi Arabia looks to ban foreign HR workers

Saudi Arabia‘s Ministry of Labor is conducting a consultation ending 23 April on a proposed ban on foreign nationals from working in HR and recruitment there.
Your recruitment business 22 April 2016

Yolk hires Tibetan monk to aid mindfulness

Multi-sector recruiter Yolk has created a new workplace environment, embraced flexible working and even brought in a Tibetan monk to hold mindfulness sessions, as part of a drive to improve employee well-being.
20 April 2016
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