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 can turn careers advisers and benefit, says REC’s Green

Failings identified in UK schools’ careers advice programmes offer recruiters “a huge opportunity” to benefit by providing insight into the world of work for young people at local schools, Kevin Green, chief executive officer of the Recruitment & Employment Confederation told an audience on Tuesday night.
Your recruitment business, Companies 11 September 2013

Civil service and charity jobs the most sought-after, finds Greenlight

Jobs in the civil service and at charities are the most sought-after amongst UK jobseekers, finds a study from digital marketing agency Greenlight, exclusively released to Recruiter.
Your recruitment business 29 August 2013

Delhi police to recruit outside city as it looks to change

The Times of India writes that New Delhi police’s decision to cast its recruiting net beyond the city itself is part of the reaction to the much-publicised gang rape and murder of a student in the city late last year.
Your recruitment business 23 August 2013

FINANCIALS: Liquid up, RDL down

Results for social and healthcare recruiter Liquid Personnel show growth at the firm, while IT and pharmaceutical recruitment group RDL, the parent company of SEC Recruitment, saw revenues drop while it re-organises its subsidiaries.
Your recruitment business 22 August 2013

Nigerian jobseekers kept waiting hold up traffic in capital

We've all heard of the perils of complex online job applications irking applicants, but things went one step further in Nigeria this week as would-be civil servants staged a peaceful protest, holding up vehicles in a busy road in the country's capital Abuja.
Your recruitment business 21 August 2013

Recruiting rates keep rising, shows Report on Jobs

July saw permanent staff appointments rise at the fastest rate since March, and the strongest increase in temp billings for nearly two-and-a-half years, shows the latest Report on Jobs from the Recruitment & Employment Confederation and KPMG
Your recruitment business 8 August 2013

FINANCIALS: Bailey and Sanctuary growing in 2012

Results released today show growth at recruiters Bailey Employment Services and Sanctuary Personnel.
Your recruitment business, HOT 100 7 August 2013

MSI gets master vendor deal to hire Shropshire NHS trusts

Medical recruitment group MSI Group will be recruiting medical locums to two Shropshire NHS trusts from 2 September, having won the firm’s first ever NHS master vendor agreement.
7 August 2013

Capita signs £474m, decade-long services deals with Barnet

Outsourcing giant Capita has been given final approval for two contracts worth around £474m over 10 years to provide a range of services including HR and payroll to the London Borough of Barnet.
7 August 2013

NHS spend on agency staff at risk under ‘better’ procurement plan

Spending on agency staff in the NHS is set to fall by hundreds of millions of pounds a year under plans published yesterday to improve the way the NHS buys its goods and services.
Your recruitment business 6 August 2013

‘Early’ CIPD research findings say there may be 1m on zero hours contracts

There could be ''about 1m zero hours workers in the UK'', suggest early findings of new research from the Chartered Institute of Personnel & Development, four times more than a recently revised Office for National Statistics estimate.
Your recruitment business 5 August 2013

NHS framework finally live as recruiter legal action dies

The withdrawal of legal action by an unnamed healthcare recruiter against the Government Procurement Service after it failed to win a place on a major NHS framework paved the way for that framework to go live today, Recruiter has learned.
Your recruitment business 1 August 2013

Delayed £1bn GPS framework date pushed back to 1 August

A much-delayed Government Procurement Service (GPS) recruitment framework agreement for nursing and care workers, which could be worth up to £1bn in total to suppliers, is now due to go live on 1 August, five months later than originally planned.
Your recruitment business 30 July 2013

Jobs Watch: Alexion, Salesforce, West Mids Police and YBS to recruit

Biopharmaceutical firm Alexion and customer relationship management company Salesforce have announced expansions in Dublin, supported by the Irish development agency IDA Ireland, while West Midlands Police and Yorkshire Building Society are also set to hire.
Your recruitment business 29 July 2013

Criminal records for nearly 1,500 South Africa police staff

South Africa’s national commissioner of police is to consider what recruitment changes may be needed after the discovery that 1,488 employees of the South African Police Service (SAPS) have criminal records.
29 July 2013

Recruitment thaw at Department for Work & Pensions

The Department for Work & Pensions (DWP) has made 1,000 hires since the start of the year, despite a recruitment freeze having been in place since May 2010.
Your recruitment business 26 July 2013
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