Public sector

NEW TO THE MARKET: 5-9 MAY 2025

This week’s new launches include: Heidrick & Struggles, Matrix, ProdigyPB, Project Brains

Supplier, Technology 6 May 2025

Humly acquires London-based education recruiter

Digital education recruitment platform Humly has finalised the purchase of London-based supply agency Future Education.

Temporary workforce, Your business 1 May 2025

NHS Trust plans to cut jobs and agency staff

The BBC reports today [30 April 2025] that the North-West Anglia NHS Foundation Trust is planning job cuts, as well as cutting its expenditure on bank and agency staff.

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

APPOINTMENTS: 14-18 APRIL 2025

This week’s appointments include: Eventus Recruitment Group, Matrix, SPG Resourcing

Supplier, Your business 14 April 2025

Californian master plan calls for new statewide collaborative to align education, training and hiring needs

In the US, the state of California is proposing to launch digital career passports for the labour market.

Your business, Your recruitment business 14 April 2025

Recruiter Searchability transitions to employee-owned

Tech recruitment firm Searchability has announced its transition to employee ownership via an Employee Ownership Trust (EOT).

Your recruitment business 8 April 2025

FINANCIALS: Staffline results exceed market expectations

Recruitment group Staffline has announced a strong performance for the year ended 31 December 2024.

Financials, Your recruitment business 8 April 2025

Zero-hours contracts must be ‘transparent and consistent’ says REC’s Shoesmith

Government must ensure that “transparency and consistency” exist around zero-hours contracts that workers can request.

Your business, Your recruitment business 1 April 2025

Recruiters urged to check contracts over proposed ‘strike breaker’ law

Employment lawyers have urged recruiters to carefully check contracts they hold with clients, as controversial secondary ‘strike breaker’ legislation, that would enable recruitment agencies to supply clients with workers as cover during industrial action, moves closer to being enacted.
In-house recruitment, Your recruitment business 11 May 2016

Servo Manpower partners Momentum Solutions

Servo Manpower, a division of Servo Group, has entered into a strategic partnership with temporary and permanent labour provider Momentum Solutions.
11 May 2016

Candidate shoots himself while waiting for janitor’s job

An applicant for a janitor’s job has accidentally shot himself while waiting for an interview at a Florida Panhandle elementary school.
11 May 2016

FINANCIALS: Contracts help Capita make strong start to 2016

Capita has made a “solid start” to 2016 having secured £458m worth of major contracts this year, according to a statement released ahead of the business process outsourcing provider’s annual general meeting today.
Your recruitment business, In-house recruitment 10 May 2016

Novia Recruitment launches in South-West England

South West-based Novia Recruitment has launched.
9 May 2016

Public sector recruiters could be ‘frozen out’ of government procurement

Public sector recruiters will need to secure a place on Crown Commercial Service (CCS) central agreements or see a drop in the number of candidates they can place with Whitehall departments, a procurement lawyer has warned.
27 April 2016

‘Layers of evidence’ required to prove SDC status, says expert

New rules on travel and subsistence came into effect on 6 April.
Legislation/Regulation, Your recruitment business 22 April 2016

GatenbySanderson hits back over “scandalous” council appointment fee

Public sector recruiter GatenbySanderson has hit back over claims that the £27k fee it charged to find a new chief executive for West Sussex County Council was a “scandalous” waste of public money.
18 April 2016

Purr-fect new recruit for Foreign Office

It has proven difficult for background checks to be carried on one of the Foreign and Commonwealth office’s latest recruits.
15 April 2016

Capita PIP assessors criticised by undercover Channel 4 report

Government contractor Capita has apologised for the conduct of a fitness-to-work assessor who boasted he was “flying through” welfare disability assessments and carrying them out even before meeting claimants.
12 April 2016

Korean student tries to ‘break in’ to recruitment

Some people will do anything to get the job of their dreams. Even if, as the Korea Times reports, they risk arrest and a criminal record.
7 April 2016

India government to share candidates’ exam scores with private sector

Scores obtained by candidates in Indian government and state-owned enterprises’ recruitment examinations are to be shared with the private sector, the country’s prime minister Narendra Modi has announced.
30 March 2016

Budget 2016: New duty on recruiters ‘clearly unjust’ says APSCo’s Hurley

The Association of Professional Staffing Companies (APSCo) has slammed the Chancellor’s announcement that where the public sector engages an off-payroll worker through their own limited company, recruitment agencies will become responsible for determining whether the rules on self-employment should apply, and will be financially liable for paying the right tax.
Legislation/Regulation, Your recruitment business 17 March 2016

Swansea doctors’ video seen 143,000 times

An online video that went live on 5 March, using foreign doctors working in the NHS to attract junior doctors to come to South Wales, has been viewed 143,000 times, according to the head of communications at Abertawe Bro Morgannwg University (ABMU) Health Board.
Your recruitment business, In-house recruitment 16 March 2016

Class People sponsors good behaviour at Springbank Academy

Education recruiter Class People is to sponsor Springbank Academy’s behaviour reward scheme.
16 March 2016

Essentia meets NHS Trust’s interim needs

A new interim resourcing business wholly owned by Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust is aiming to meet the health service’s need for professionals with specialist skills and experience in a new way.
Your recruitment business, In-house recruitment 15 March 2016
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