Technology

CONTRACTS & DEALS: 9-13 JUNE 2025

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

Creative/Digital/Media, IT/Telecoms 12 June 2025

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.

Creative/Digital/Media, IT/Telecoms 20 May 2025

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”.

Life sciences, Creative/Digital/Media 19 May 2025

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.

Recruitment Process Outsourcing, Creative/Digital/Media 15 May 2025
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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

Public sector, Creative/Digital/Media 6 May 2025

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.

Creative/Digital/Media, IT/Telecoms 6 May 2025

The personal touch

Pay attention to the candidate experience

13 August 2019

Viewpoint: Keeping up with the AI Joneses

Don’t believe the AI hype in talent acquisition

13 August 2019

WeLove9am acquires media buying business LogicMelon Media

Gloucestershire-based employer branding and marketing agency WeLove9am has bought out media buying business LogicMelon Media for an undisclosed sum.

Marketing, Creative/Digital/Media 1 August 2019

CONTRACTS & DEALS: 29 JULY-2 AUGUST 2019

This week’s contracts and deals include: Phaidon International, WORK180

Transport & logistics, Life sciences 1 August 2019

Can Russian-speaking IT specialists solve the IT skills shortfall?

How do you successfully recruit a team of Russian-speaking IT specialists for a European company? Tatiana Melnichuk explains

IT/Telecoms 31 July 2019

New tool helps Basque HR professionals fill talent shortages

A new tool launched by non-profit organisation Bizkaia Talent aims to help Basque-based employers fill talent shortages, particularly in engineering and software development.

Engineering, Charity & not-for-profit 15 July 2019

CONTRACTS & DEALS: 15-19 JULY 2019

This week’s contracts and deals include: Adepto, CV-Library, HireXtra, Morgan Hunt, Job Sender, Recruitive Software, SaaS Holdings, SCP Aberdeen, Search Consultancy, WhiteHat

Public sector, Social care 15 July 2019

CanLead forges ahead on blockchain

Referral platform aims to disrupt recruitment

15 July 2019

Indeed acquires job advertising tech platform ClickIQ

Careers site Indeed has acquired ClickIQ, an automated job advertising technology platform, based in the UK.

12 July 2019

Unbiased AI robot Tengai recruits her first hire

Artificial intelligence recruiting robot Tengai has already succeeded in helping to make her first hire.

12 July 2019

Syft rewards workers with cash bonus

Syft is rewarding its workers with a one-off cash bonus following the flexible staffing platform’s recent acquisition by global job search engine Indeed.

11 July 2019

NEW TO THE MARKET: 8-12 JULY 2019

This week’s launches include: Applied, Fircroft Group, Harnham, Holiday Staff, Understanding Recruitment, Wren Kitchens

Retail, Oil & gas/Energy 10 July 2019

AI robot Tengai spins off as separate company

Tengai, the AI interview robot developed by a Swedish recruiter TNG on the Furhat Robotics platform, is to go incorporated as Tengai AB, as the group eyes international expansion of the product.

HR 9 July 2019

New jobs in Belfast and Doncaster

Technology company Dynamic Signal is set to hire 100 new staff in Belfast over the next three to four years as a result of new funding from Invest NI.

Engineering, Industrial/Manufacturing 28 June 2019

Leaders in Asia Pacific are greater risk takers

Leaders in multinational corporations (MNCs) in the Asia Pacific region are greater risk takers compared with those in the West, says Odgers Berndtson's Mark Braithwaite (above).

Executive search 27 June 2019

March of the robots hits jobs in poorer areas and manufacturing

A study by UK consultancy firm Oxford Economics suggests that the use of robots in the UK’s poorer regions has triggered the loss of almost twice as many jobs as in wealthier areas.

Engineering, Industrial/Manufacturing 26 June 2019
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