DEI

Just Group invests £3m in over-50s work platform 55/Redefined

Financial services group Just Group is investing £3m in 55/Redefined, a global platform for companies to engage over-50s.

12 September 2024

Asda offers work experience to students with special educational needs

Asda has expanded its Supported Internship Programme, now offering year-long work experience placements to over 70 students with learning disabilities or learning difficulties.

Employment Rights Bill crucial in helping BME inequality in workplace says TUC

Labour’s Employment Rights Bill is vital to lifting living standards for Black and minority ethnic (BME) workers, according to the Trades Union Congress.

Hospitality/Leisure 13 August 2024

CONTRACTS & DEALS: 5-9 AUGUST 2024

This week’s new contracts & deals include: RAMP Global

IT/Telecoms, HR 8 August 2024

Co-op first retailer to publish socioeconomic pay-gap report

The UK’s largest consumer co-operative, Co-op, has published its first socioeconomic pay-gap report highlighting the difference in pay between colleagues from different socioeconomic backgrounds.

Retail 15 July 2024

The FIRM relaunches as The Talent Labs, expands services

The talent acquisition membership organisation The FIRM, co-founded by Emma Mirrington (pictured), has relaunched as The Talent Labs.

Executive search 4 June 2024

NEW TO THE MARKET: 3-7 JUNE 2024

This week’s new launches include: IR35 Shield, Oyster, Rubicon Executive, Wave

Viewpoint: Neurodiversity in recruitment

It’s the time to make a change.

8 May 2024

Recruitment Apprentice Edwards gains massive experience from process

Entrepreneur Lord Sugar’s £250k investment won’t be heading to a recruiter on this year’s BBC reality show The Apprentice.

LEGISLATION: Employment changes bring new rights from day one

Along with April showers, this month brings the UK a number of employment law and payment rate changes.

5 April 2024

NEW TO THE MARKET: 1-5 APRIL 2024

This week’s new launches include: FAIRER Consulting, Hays, Indeed, UBIO, Vercida Consulting

IT/Telecoms 4 April 2024

Sparta and NatWest seek underrepresented talent for emerging OBM community

Sparta Global, a UK B-Corp hire, train, deploy (HTD) company, is partnering with NatWest to secure technology talent from diverse backgrounds. 

DEI rises in priority globally

A new report suggests that DEI has risen in priority for many organisations globally, with talent as a primary focus and most having a DEI budget.

HR 19 March 2024

£60m funding as Sunak goes big on apprenticeships

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has unveiled a raft of reforms aimed at increasing apprenticeship numbers and doing away with red tape for small businesses.

Retail, IT/Telecoms 19 March 2024

Pertemps gives scholarships to Aston University to disadvantaged families

Recruitment business Pertemps has donated £50k to Aston University for 10 scholarships benefitting students from low-income families.

Randstad joins coalition of companies connecting refugees to jobs

Randstad UK&I is one of over 60 major businesses joining forces to advance the labour market integration of refugees in the UK.

7 March 2024
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Four steps for inclusive neurodiverse recruitment

Research indicates a significant disparity in employment rates for neurodivergent adults.

4 March 2024

NEW TO THE MARKET: 4-8 MARCH 2024

This week’s new launches include: Connect Appointments, Eventus Recruitment Group, Granger Reis, Localyze, The Intersection Network

Investing in Talent awards 2023

Two recruitment networks driving inclusivity

Recruiters are on the front line when it comes to improving diversity of talent pools. When agencies work together, collaborating on diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging (DEIB), it produces much stronger, deeper results, as evidenced by two entries to Recruiter’s Investing in Talent Awards 2023.

Banking/Financial services, Legal 29 February 2024

Unify launches to enhance diversity across financial and professional services

Chelsea Karaolis, a former director of specialist recruitment and growth consultancy Scene, has recently launched her own recruitment company, Unify.

Banking/Financial services, Legal 13 February 2024

Investing in Talent Awards recognise recruiters at the forefront of DEI

On Tuesday 30 January, the winners of Recruiter's Investing in Talent Awards 2023 were announced at The Brewery, in the City of London.

1 February 2024
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Profile: Hitting the right D&I note

Jay-T has broken a 109-year-old glass ceiling. Why did it take so long?

16 January 2024

REC Summit: Move beyond DEI practices as ‘tickbox exercise’, urges recruiter

Although 61% of companies point to equity, diversity and inclusion (DEI) as a top manager capability, only 28% of managers say that it’s recognised in their performance reviews.

1 December 2023

REC’s EDI summit finds CRMs are letting recruiters down

The lack of diversity reporting in candidate relationship management systems (CRMs) is letting recruiters down.

IT/Telecoms, HR 30 November 2023

Recruiters warned to 'fix your own' EDI challenges before helping clients

Recruitment businesses must fix their own businesses before benefitting from helping clients address their talent and skill shortages with equity, diversity and inclusion (EDI) solutions.

29 November 2023
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