Emerging talent

Analysis

UK-INDIA FTA: Financially beneficial for firms to second Indian workers to the UK

Following the news that the UK and India have agreed a trade deal, what will that mean for mobility of workers?

Creative/Digital/Media, IT/Telecoms 9 May 2025

Recruiters can help Key4Life in finding employment for ex-offenders

Law firm Harbottle & Lewis hosted a panel event at its London office to challenge perceptions around the employment of men with convictions.

Charity & not-for-profit, Legal 21 March 2025

NEW TO THE MARKET: 19-23 AUGUST 2024

This week’s new launches include: Hayfield

Engineering, Construction & property 20 August 2024

Design your firm for trust and problem-solving

Don’t design your organisational culture for the lowest common denominator, a culture specialist has urged recruiters.

23 March 2023

Employment minister says ‘structural challenges’ in labour market must be fixed

A pivotal part of the government’s myriad employment schemes is to fix the “structural challenges” in the labour market, employment minister Miriam (Mims) Davies told Recruiter.

Oil & gas/Energy, Social care 21 October 2020

MiddletonMurray looks to buy up recruitment firms in 2020

Apprenticeship training provider and Apprenticeship Levy consultancy MiddletonMurray is hitting the acquisition trail in 2020.

Retail, Public sector 15 January 2020

Fishwick’s OBE recognition of transforming lives through work

The managing director of Transform Lives Company (TLC), a social enterprise that helps unemployed people into work, says her OBE is as much a recognition of its mission as it is of her own achievements.

7 January 2020

Insight: Combatting 'millennial burnout'

One way to tackle the job-hopping and lack of engagement shown by millennials may be to set up a job-swapping programme

12 December 2019

Govia Thameslink and The Prince’s Trust extend joint training programme

UK rail operator Govia Thameslink Railway (GTR) and young people’s charity The Prince’s Trust have extended a joint training programme by a further two years.

Transport & logistics, Engineering 23 September 2019

Rare’s CRS introduced down under

International law firm Allens, an alliance partner of Linklaters, is to introduce diversity recruitment firm Rare contextual recruitment system (CRS) in Australia.
IT/Telecoms, Legal 15 June 2016

Daisy Group launches talent programme for its graduates

IT services and telecoms provider Daisy Group has launched a talent development programme aimed to further enhance the careers of its graduates.
IT/Telecoms 13 June 2016

Institute for Apprenticeships appoints Jenkins shadow chair

Antony Jenkins has been appointed as shadow chair of the Institute for Apprenticeships, the new independent, employer-led organisation established to support the government’s plan to create 3m apprenticeship starts by 2020.
10 June 2016

BBC refutes ‘anti-white’ recruitment campaign slur

The BBC has described reports it is running “anti-white” recruitment campaigns as “utterly ridiculous and irresponsible”.
IT/Telecoms, Creative/Digital/Media 3 June 2016

GetMyFirstJob wins £1m investment

Apprenticeship matching service GetMyFirstJob has received £1m in new investment from Nesta Impact Investments and the City & Guilds Group.
1 June 2016

Lord Sugar hired as enterprise tsar

Lord Alan Sugar has been appointed as enterprise tsar for a second time, as part of the government’s drive to get more young people to consider starting their own business or to take up an apprenticeship.
25 May 2016

REC and industry leaders send Osborne open letter on apprenticeship levy

The forthcoming apprenticeship levy should be charged only on companies’ permanent payrolls – and not on their temporary workforces, according to an open letter to Chancellor George Osborne published today from 16 recruitment leaders.

23 May 2016

Shine bright like a diamond

Social entrepreneur Stephen Carrick-Davies is a man who wears many hats. These include working within the non-profit sector as a freelance consultant and trainer, helping to run a successful community café – Hill Station – in South-East London, as well as being interim chief executive of the Inclusion Trust, a trust that focuses on young people who have been excluded – ‘pushed out’ – of mainstream education.
HR 19 May 2016

Queen’s Speech emphasises careers and training

Greater control of finances to enable local councils to create jobs, a drive to increase social mobility at UK universities and reforms to improve the career prospects of Britain’s prison population were among measures announced in this year’s Queen Speech.
Public sector 18 May 2016

Manpower offers associates MyPath with WIU

Recruitment giant Manpower has partnered with Western International University to provide all eligible associates across the US the opportunity to gain a college education and career coaching at no personal cost.
Education 18 May 2016

New start-up universities should emphasise employability skills

New start-up universities have been urged to emphasise employability skills to ensure recruiters are not left facing difficulties trying to place graduates from these institutions.
Education, Public sector 16 May 2016

TXM Academy offers new apprenticeship programme with AIS

Engineering apprenticeship provider TXM Academy is launching a new apprenticeship programme with engineering solutions provider Ainscough Industrial Services (AIS).
Engineering 16 May 2016

Technojobs launches Digital Tech jobs

Job board Technojobs has launched Digital Tech jobs – its new digital job site.
IT/Telecoms 16 May 2016

GradWeb rebrands as Amberjack

Recruitment outsourcing, technology and assessment provider GradWeb has rebranded as Amberjack.
IT/Telecoms, Creative/Digital/Media 9 May 2016

Apprenticeships give businesses new ideas, says GroupM

If you want the truth when you have a question to ask or problem to solve, ask an apprentice. In contrast, graduates tend to “tell you what you want to hear”, according to the director of talent and development at global media investment group GroupM.
Creative/Digital/Media 17 March 2016

Budget: T&S tax relief removed from next month

The government is to push ahead with the removal of tax relief on travel & subsistence (T&S) expenses, according to Treasury documents accompanying today’s Budget.
16 March 2016
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