Technology

CONTRACTS & DEALS: 9-13 JUNE 2025

This week’s new contracts & deals include: Firefish Software, Jobmatch Sweden, Liquid Friday

CONTRACTS & DEALS: 27-30 MAY 2025

This week’s new contracts & deals include: Kyloe Partners

IT/Telecoms, HR 27 May 2025

Human skills as important as ‘oven-ready’ tech skills

The UK skills landscape is experiencing rapid and regular turnover as employers look for “oven-ready talent” with much in-demand technical skills.

UK Hiring Taskforce launches to develop new hiring strategies

A UK Hiring Taskforce was launched on Friday [16 May 2025] at the Houses of Parliament to develop strategy, technology and policy for “the end-to-end process of hiring in as new a way as possible”.

NHS SBS partners with health-tech firm to transform workforce across NHS

NHS Shared Business Services (NHS SBS) and health-tech company ImproveWell have announced a partnership aiming to drive workforce transformation across the NHS.

Social care, IT/Telecoms 15 May 2025
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Org Group acquires Manchester-based tech recruiting firm

Multinational professional services provider Org Group has acquired Manchester-based technology recruiting firm Venturi.

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AI agents are coming

Rather than being seen as the enemy, the recruitment industry should view AI agents as an exciting new dawn.

7 May 2025

NEW TO THE MARKET: 5-9 MAY 2025

This week’s new launches include: Heidrick & Struggles, Matrix, ProdigyPB, Project Brains

The rise and rise of agentic AI adoption

Agentic AI adoption is expected to grow 327% by 2027 as HR leaders plan to redeploy a quarter of their workforce, according to new research by Salesforce.

REC reveals new AI knowledge hub for members

In a week in which the government has unveiled its new AI strategy, the Recruitment & Employment Confederation (REC) has presented a new AI knowledge hub for its members.

Prime Minister sets out blueprint to improve AI in public sector workplaces

Artificial intelligence will be “unleashed” across the UK to deliver a decade of national renewal, as part of a new plan announced today [13 January 2025].

CONTRACTS & DEALS: 9-13 DECEMBER 2024

This week’s new contracts & deals include: HireVue, Iverse, Revealense

NEW TO THE MARKET: 25-29 NOVEMBER 2024

This week’s new launches include: Carerix, Deel, In2Dialog, Paiger

IT/Telecoms, HR 25 November 2024

Most tech firms have shed staff in past year

Almost all tech businesses have made redundancies within the last 12 months, research from RSM UK has found.

Enhanced GaiaAttract uses voice to control and manage recruitment

AI-powered recruitment platform Gaia has launched a first-of-its-kind voice and chat feature that enables employers to manage recruitment with simple voice commands.

Randstad data reveals widening of the AI skills gap

New research from Randstad has suggested that AI inequities stand to worsen labour shortages if left unchecked.

Tech & Tools: November/December 2024

Personalising the candidate journey.

CONTRACTS & DEALS: 14-18 OCTOBER 2024

This week’s new contracts & deals include: Adobe, The King’s Trust, Workday

NEW TO THE MARKET: 14-18 OCTOBER 2024

This week’s new launches include: Back2Business, Personio, Sapphire, Superdrug

Retail, Marketing 15 October 2024

IJA report reveals AI fuels surge in fake job scams

Artificial intelligence is fuelling a surge in fake job ads, according to a new survey.

IT/Telecoms 8 October 2024

Report calls for recruitment and retention into UK military to be strengthened

A “burdensome bureaucracy” is making recruitment into the UK military more difficult than it needs to be, says a House of Lords report.

Report calls for ‘digital leader’ in every school to close digital skills gap

Every school and college should appoint an individual responsible for digital education, says a new cross-sector report co-authored by Cheltenham Festivals and tech training provider QA.

Public sector, Education 13 August 2024

CONTRACTS & DEALS: 29 JULY-2 AUGUST 2024

This week’s new contracts & deals include: Impactpool

IT/Telecoms, HR 1 August 2024

Hadi Moussa joins digital staffing platform Coople as CEO

Coople, a leading digital staffing platform on the European market, has announced the appointment of Hadi Moussa as its new CEO.

Tech-focused Levin exits Europe to concentrate on US market

Levin has announced a strategic restructuring that calls for the tech-focused recruitment group to exit the European market and focus on operations in the US.

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