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.

Seagate creates jobs in Derry

Data storage company Seagate is creating 25 highly skilled jobs as a result of a £47m investment in a research & development project at its Londonderry factory.

FINANCIALS: US recruiter TrueBlue reports dip in revenue

US blue collar recruiter TrueBlue has reported a slight decrease in revenue for Q1 2019.

CONTRACTS & DEALS: 29 APRIL – 3 MAY 2019

This week’s contracts and deals include: Advanced Medical Personnel Services, AMN Healthcare Services, APSCo, Brightwork, Candidate.ID, Challenge TRG Group, Driver Hire, Hive HR, Holmes Noble, Maven Capital Partners, Mott MacDonald, PIE Recruitment, REC, Symphony Talent, Tempo

Nodal Labs signs £250m deal with construction recruiter Minstrell

Nodal Labs, a blockchain-powered freelance marketplace, has inked a deal with specialist construction & engineering recruitment firm Minstrell valued at £250m over five years.

NEW TO THE MARKET: 29 APRIL – 3 MAY 2019

This week’s launches include: Beyond Encryption, Michael Page, Prospects, Talent Intuition, Woodrow Mercer Finance

Executive search, IT/Telecoms 29 April 2019

Tech company brings new jobs to Yorkshire town

A technology company is to create 100 new tech roles in the West Yorkshire town of Halifax.

APPOINTMENTS: 23-26 APRIL 2019

This week’s appointments include: Advance TRS, Holmes Noble, Next Ventures, Yolk Recruitment

CONTRACTS & DEALS: 23-26 APRIL 2019

This week’s contracts and deals include: Brightfield, CV-Library, Energy & Utility Skills, Entrust Resource Solutions, Friisberg & Partners International, GatedTalent, Guidant Global, Inglis Jane, SCI Search and Selection, VCV, WaveTrackR, Youth Employment UK

Technology key in communicating with global talent team members

Modern technology is “absolutely critical” in communicating with team members who are spread around the world.

Logging in to new tech jobs in Dublin

Ireland’s tech sector is to be boosted by 200 new jobs.

Apprentices are new life-blood of IT industry, says Code Nation CEO

Apprenticeships are “the game changer” for the UK’s skills-starved IT technology sector.

Insight: AI can help solve the bad behaviours

It’s not just a dating issue… Ghosting, catfishing and submarining are rife in recruitment.

17 April 2019

Video becomes the new CV star

How video embeds itself into the recruitment process.

17 April 2019
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Upstart: Helping to Code the Nation

A recruitment industry stalwart has created Code Nation to help fill the coding talent shortfall.

IT/Telecoms 17 April 2019
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Innovation? It's child's play

Recruiters could do a lot worse than learning from child entrepreneurs, as Roisin Woolnough explains

17 April 2019

Flexible work is good work

Hadley's comment: Flexible work is good work

17 April 2019
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