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Skill-based hiring can have ugly consequences – what can go wrong?

Skill-based hiring (SBH) is a hiring strategy that focuses on recruiting and selecting candidates based primarily on their demonstrated ability to perform each skill required for the position.

HR 2 May 2025

Elite Leaders appoints new Executive Team member

Elite Leaders is delighted to announce the appointment of Chris O’Connell to its Executive team.

1 May 2025

Humly acquires London-based education recruiter

Digital education recruitment platform Humly has finalised the purchase of London-based supply agency Future Education.

Public sector, Creative/Digital/Media 1 May 2025

HMRC to ‘revise’ IR35 CEST tool

The government has announced that its Check Employment Status for Tax (CEST) tool will be “revised” from today [30 April 2025].

IT/Telecoms, Accounting/Finance 30 April 2025

APSCo briefs House of Lords on more amendments to Employment Rights Bill

Trade body APSCo has warned Peers of urgent amendments needed to the Employment Rights Bill, which must be addressed before it reaches Royal Assent.

30 April 2025

Policy changes leave US frontline workers nervous about jobs

Global trade policy changes are leaving US frontline workers nervous, angry and stressed out about potential effects on their jobs.

HR 30 April 2025

The SR Group liquidates two German offices

The SR Group’s German companies will formally enter into a solvent liquidation process on 1 May.

30 April 2025

Eurobase People appoints new sales director to push growth

IT/tech recruiter Eurobase People has appointed Steven Oakley (pictured) as sales director.

Sales, IT/Telecoms 30 April 2025

Recruitment insolvencies on rise at fastest rate since financial crash

Recruitment agencies are shutting for business at their fastest rate in 15 years, according to analysis by business news outlet CityAM.

28 April 2025

Quy joins Pedersen & Partners’ Dubai team

International executive search firm Pedersen & Partners has appointed Chris Quy as client partner within its Dubai team. Quy joins from international oil & gas recruiter Aldelia where he was recruitment director.
Executive search 19 February 2016

Holt fills new director role at Outsource UK

Multi-sector recruiter Outsource UK has appointed Jessica Holt to the newly created role of director of workforce solutions.  Holt joins from recruitment giant Adecco UK & Ireland where she was an executive director and is based at Outsource’s head office in Swindon.
19 February 2016

Leyton Orient sign Gagliardi as recruitment head

League Two football club Leyton Orient has appointed Roberto Gagliardi as head of recruitment. According to a club statement, Gagliardi, a former Leyton Orient goalkeeping coach, is returning to the club. He also previously worked as an international scout for Serie A football club AC Chievo Verona.
19 February 2016

Kamanchi takes on Deterding

IT service provider to recruiters Kamanchi has appointed Guy Deterding as managing director.
19 February 2016

Hare and Smith join HR GO

High street recruiter HR GO has appointed Cindy Hare and Angela Smith as commercial directors. Hare was previously a sales director with the company, while Smith was managing director with commercial recruiter Office Angels. Hare is based in Bishop Stortford, while Smith is in London. Meanwhile Jo Anne Smith has been appointed as director for the firm’s Kent business while Scott Treacher is director of its driving division.
19 February 2016

Heidrick & Struggles appoints Gwin and Sanders as co-partners

Global executive search firm Heidrick & Struggles has appointed Bonnie Gwin and Jeff Sanders as co-managing partners of its global chief executive officer and board practice.
Executive search 19 February 2016

Cadd joins Capita as talent development manager

Capita Document & Information Services has appointed Andrea Cadd as talent development manager.
19 February 2016

Roundtable: An expense too far for umbrellas?

With the long-awaited new rules on travel & subsistence (T&S) expenses only weeks away from implementation, Recruiter brought together recruitment professionals from a variety of sectors to debate the implications at a roundtable event sponsored by Anderson Group and chaired by Recruiter editor DeeDee Doke
IT/Telecoms 18 February 2016

Game changers 2016

Welcome to the third annual showcase of Recruiter magazine’s Game Changers, featuring five products with the power and potential to radically alter the way we recruit. Sue Weekes looks at what’s behind them
IT/Telecoms 18 February 2016

Soundbites March 2016

“How can an organisation balance internal and external recruitment to ensure staff progression but also bring in new ideas and skills?”
18 February 2016

Aldi creates 5,000 jobs in UK expansion drive

German grocery chain Aldi is creating 5,000 jobs as it opens more than 80 new stores across the UK this year, according to the Financial Times.
17 February 2016

Halfords to recruit 600 trainees across the UK

Car, camping and cycling retailer Halfords is to take on 600 trainees across the UK over the next 12 months.
17 February 2016

BBC programme on collaborative hiring gives Reynolds food for thought

When looking for its new distribution operations manager, food distributor Reynolds Foods did away with its usual recruitment methods and turned the task over to an employee vote.
Creative/Digital/Media, Industrial/Manufacturing 17 February 2016

Alibaba hires Kozlak, Lundquist succeeds her at Target

Online marketplace Alibaba Group has appointed Jodee Kozlak as global senior vice president of HR.
IT/Telecoms, HR 17 February 2016

Legal challenge forces Warwick Uni job board to change its name

Warwick University job board fe.jobs.ac.uk has changed its name to college.jobs.ac.uk, following a legal challenge brought by FEjobs.com, owned by online teacher recruitment specialist Eteach Group.
IT/Telecoms, Education 17 February 2016

GMB union reports Tempay for breaching regulations

The GMB union, representing employees of retail chain Marks & Spencer’s Swindon distribution depot, has reported agency Tempay, which supplies employment contracts for temp staff at the site, to Companies House for alleged breach of regulations.
17 February 2016
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