Public sector

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.

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.

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.

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.

Recruiter Searchability transitions to employee-owned

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

FINANCIALS: Staffline results exceed market expectations

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

£250m-a-year NHS framework delayed anew as legal proceedings begin

The introduction of a major Government Procurement Service (GPS) framework agreement for the recruitment of nurses and social care staff has again been delayed pending legal proceedings.
3 July 2013

£1k a day interim reflects shallow public sector talent pool

A surge in interim executive recruitment in the public sector, accompanied by a sharp rise in day rates, reflects the shallowness of the public sector talent pool, says a senior executive at interim management provider Interim Partners.

Impossible interview questions? Here’s one that really was…

Many a jobseeker will know the frustration of getting through to a job interview only to be stumped by a tricky question – but the Royal Australian Air Force have managed to put an impossible one at the very start of its hiring process.

Reed Job Index provides further grounds for optimism

The number of vacancies has grown by 22% since the same time last year, according to the latest Reed Job Index. The index for June saw 7% growth between the first and second quarters of this year.

Remploy put Fellows into commercial role from forces post

Employment services provider Remploy, which has found more than 50,000 jobs for disabled and disadvantaged people in the past four years, continues its move into a new, more commercial era with a new director of public sector.

Eurotime Solutions recruits veterans and Avery for IT recruitment

IT and telecoms recruiter Eurotime Solutions has appointed Nathan Avery as a principal consultant, while Army reservist Kurt Fisher joins the company in the same role.

Winners and losers after Osborne’s spending review, say recruiters

The recruitment sector will have winners as well as losers due to yesterday’s spending review in which Chancellor George Osborne announced spending cuts of £11.5bn in 2015-16.

Osborne’s renegotiation of contracts with suppliers fraught with difficulties

Outsourcing giant Capita says it has no comment to make on whether a £400m contract with the Army to provide recruitment services could be renegotiated.

Canberra work experience for future indigenous Australian leaders

Over 100 indigenous secondary school students from across Australia are undertaking a week of work experience with the Australian government in the nation’s capital city of Canberra.

Countdown to zero hours contracts review findings in autumn

Officials from the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) will make a decision this autumn as to what further action it might take on zero hours contracts, following newly-announced investigations into the matter.

Total Assist recruits Carline and Crane

Healthcare recruiter Total Assist Group has taken on new business development manager Robert Carline, and appointed new consultant Craig Crane to its nursing division.

Penna gets Hart for government and health interims

HR firm Penna has taken on Nick Hart as a senior consultant in its executive interim recruitment team, focusing on central government and health.

Reserve more notice for employers

Trebling the period of notice to employers whose staff are going on operations with Britain’s military reserve forces is vital to ensure that more reservists are hired.

Interims in public sector ‘turn off’ warning

Plans to meet talent deficits within the Civil Service by buying in key skills could fail unless interims are allowed the flexibility to be paid off the government payroll, according to interim providers.
In-house recruitment 13 June 2013

Taiwan hits heights, Brazil hiring strong finds Manpower survey

A net 40% of employers in Taiwan expect to increase headcount in Q3 2013 – by far the highest figure recorded globally in recruitment firm Manpower’s Employment Outlook Survey.

Defence minister hails partnership approach to wounded vets’ careers service

Defence personnel, welfare and veterans minister Mark Francois says that a new post-military careers service for injured and sick Armed Forces personnel will be a success thanks to its “partnership approach” with “leading service charities”.
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