Public sector

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

Is immigration white paper the end of an era for low-skilled migration?

The white paper published yesterday [12 May 2025] represents the end of an era for low-skilled migration and an ambitious shift toward productivity-first immigration.

Advice, Temporary workforce 13 May 2025

Cross-continent MoU could boost environmental health profession amid recruitment struggles

An agreement has been signed, which could help boost recruitment of environmental health officers (EHOs) globally.

Your business, Your recruitment business 8 May 2025

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

NHS in-house search aims to ‘make life uncomfortable’ for agencies

The head of the NHS’s burgeoning in-house executive search service says he aims to “make life uncomfortable” for the external search firms he is competing with, as he outlines plans to recruiter.co.uk.
Your recruitment business, In-house recruitment 19 December 2013

Smallest and largest firms lead vacancy growth, finds ONS

Vacancies grew most in the UK’s smallest and largest firms in the three months to November, according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS).
Your recruitment business 18 December 2013

One in five NHS redundancies rehired after receiving payoffs

In the past 12 months the NHS has hired 3,261 individuals who had previously been paid off under the government’s reorganisation of the service, a parliamentary committee heard yesterday.
Your recruitment business, In-house recruitment 18 December 2013

Irish police recruitment back on the beat today

Recruitment to Ireland’s police force, An Garda Síochána, resumes today although the total number of officers is still likely to fall in the meantime, reports The Irish Times.
Your recruitment business 12 December 2013

NHS bodies come together to bring retired nurses back to work

Several NHS and medical organisations are in the early stages of creating a new campaign aimed at recruiting retired nurses back into work.
Your recruitment business 10 December 2013

Recruitment industry supplier Optionis goes Gambian with four-day week

Optionis, the parent company of recruitment industry suppliers ClearSky and Parasol, says it has been inspired by the Gambian public sector to offer staff a four-day working week, with longer individual working days.
Your recruitment business, In-house recruitment 4 December 2013

REC partners with NSL Validation Solutions

Industry body the Recruitment & Employment Confederation has confirmed a formal partnership with identity validation organisation NSL Validation Solutions.
Your recruitment business 4 December 2013

Education recruiter Classpeople claims training reveals new recruitment model

Education recruitment consultancy Classpeople says its new offering of free training to teachers it supplies demonstrates a “new paradigm of recruiting” with increased investment in candidates on the cards.
Your recruitment business 3 December 2013

Bull: Randstad winning fight in UK with best perm month in three years

Randstad UK had the best month on the permanent side of its business for three years in September, according to the head of the business, speaking exclusively to recruiter.co.uk.
Your recruitment business, HOT 100 29 November 2013

HR and recruitment issues outlined in SNP Scottish independence plan

A white paper released on Tuesday (26 November) outlining the Scottish National Party’s case for Scottish independence contains a number of areas relevant to jobs, recruitment and personnel management.
Your recruitment business, Legislation/Regulation 28 November 2013

Half of firms in care sector fail to pay minimum wage

Nearly half of care sector employers investigated by HM Revenue & Customs are not compliant with the National Minimum Wage (NMW), the highest rate of non-compliance seen in the sector in five years.
Your recruitment business, In-house recruitment 25 November 2013

Profit doubles at Caan’s Human Capital Investment Group

Recruitment group Human Capital Investment Group (HCIG), owned by James Caan’s private equity business Hamilton Bradshaw, has seen its profits double.
HOT 100 25 November 2013

Pulse Healthcare pair join de Poel’s new healthcare division Clarity

Pulse Healthcare pair join de Poel’s new healthcare division Clarity Temporary labour procurer de Poel has made two senior appointments to the business development team of its recently-launched NHS and private healthcare division de Poel Clarity.
Your recruitment business 22 November 2013

Capita has ‘clean bill of health’ over army recruitment

Capita chief executive officer Paul Pindar says a new independent report gives the outsourcing giant ''a pretty clean bill of health'' over its outsourced recruitment programme for the British Army.
21 November 2013

New jobs programme for women veterans from US Labor Department

The US Department of Labor (DOL) has established an employment and training programme specifically for women veterans of the country’s armed forces.
Your recruitment business 21 November 2013

NHS to report non-binding ward staffing levels

NHS organisations will have to publish monthly details online of ward-by-ward staffing levels from next April, under the Department of Health (DH) response to the Mid-Staffs inquiry.
Your recruitment business 20 November 2013
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