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

Morgan Hunt gets managed service contract for LeSoCo

Multi-sector recruiter Morgan Hunt has been awarded the managed service contract for temporary recruitment for a South London further education (FE) college with over 15,000 enrolled students.
Your recruitment business 31 October 2013

FINANCIALS: Advantage Group, Heidrick and Servoca report

International executive recruiter Heidrick & Struggles and Advantage Group, a UK offshoot of Japanese staffing giant Recruit Co, showed contrasting fortunes in newly-released financial results.
Your recruitment business 30 October 2013

REC adds DBS service Personnel Checks to business partner scheme

The Recruitment & Employment Confederation (REC) has added Lancashire-based Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) checks firm Personnel Checks to its panel of business partners.
Your recruitment business 30 October 2013

Weathering the storm with temporary staff and extra shifts

The newly christened St Jude storm has been keeping recruitment and staffing firms as well as personnel managers busy across the UK.
Your recruitment business 28 October 2013

Business as usual after private equity firm Blackstone acquires Asclepius

Private equity firm Blackstone has acquired Asclepius, after the two founder-directors of the medical recruiter sold their stakes in the business.
Your recruitment business 28 October 2013

Interim recruiter Alium opens education practice

Global interim management provider Alium Partners launched a new education practice to work with higher education at a “period of change and transformation”.
Your recruitment business 25 October 2013

Dove appointment latest in raft of hires for Classpeople

Education recruiter Classpeople has strengthened its management team with the appointment of Robert Dove as operations director.
Your recruitment business 25 October 2013

Hilder relishes role as Thales UK sourcer

Rob Hilder, the newly-appointed UK head of sourcing at Thales Group, has told Recruiter he is relishing the new opportunity of developing the sourcing operation to “really be seen as a valued function” in the business.
Your recruitment business, In-house recruitment 17 October 2013

HR ex-military can lead from front

Ex-military members now holding human resources (HR) roles have much to offer UK plc in leadership qualities and skills in a business climate that is “lacking moral courage”, the founder and managing partner of HR recruiter Oakleaf Partnership has said.
In-house recruitment 17 October 2013

Success to date from government’s Update Service for background check

Over 40,000 people applied for a new product from the government’s Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) giving individuals a single vetting certificate for roles requiring clearance, which employers can check online, recruiter.co.uk learns.
Your recruitment business, In-house recruitment 16 October 2013

Open up the NHS to SMEs

Dr Rajia Bibi comments on the Association of Professional Staffing Companies’ (APSCo’s) SME Public Sector Procurement Working Party
Your recruitment business 15 October 2013

APSCo gets Compliance + on the subject of education recruitment

The Association of Professional Staffing Companies (APSCo) will launch Compliance +, its best practice standard for education recruitment firms, early next year.
11 October 2013

Penna recruits Hayes to executive interim team

HR services group Penna has taken on Greg Hayes as a senior consultant in its executive interim team.
Your recruitment business 11 October 2013

Public sector lead Bainger joins Green Park Interim & Executive Search

Recruitment firm Green Park Interim & Executive Search has taken on Andrea Bainger who will lead the firm’s public sector team, including local and central government positions.
Your recruitment business 11 October 2013

New procurement hub to put together national nursing agency framework

Four NHS procurement bodies are working together on the creation of a new national nursing agency framework for the NHS and other public sector organisations.
Your recruitment business 4 October 2013

REC’s Shoesmith blogs on key themes from the Conservative Party Conference

The party conference bandwagon rolled to a close this week with the Conservative Party Conference in Manchester. Recruitment & Employment Confederation (REC) head of policy Kate Shoesmith was there to keep up with all the action and debate, which centred on the following topics:
Your recruitment business, Legislation/Regulation 2 October 2013
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