Sainsbury’s goes online to recruit web and app staff

Sainsbury’s is to use social media and its own careers website to recruit web designers, developers, engineers and testers for 480 new roles in London and Coventry.

Child safeguarding rules force recruiters to check all candidates’ compliance

Guidance around working with young children has seen recruiters change how they recruit and screen candidates, in some cases going through thousands of people on their books to check compliance.

Vacancy Filler Recruitment Software appointed public sector cloud services supplier

Vacancy Filler Recruitment Software has been appointed as a recruitment software supplier under the public sector (G-cloud) framework agreement with the Crown Commercial Service (CCS).

Manufacturing jobs continue to rise but jobs growth rate slows

Job creation in the UK’s manufacturing sector has increased for the 23rd month in a row, according to the Markit/Chartered Institute of Purchasing & Supply Purchasing Managers’ Index for March 2015.

Chameleon-i partners with Recruitive

Recruitment software providers Recruitive and Chameleon-i have set up a partnership.

More small recruiters to gain access to public sector contracts

Smaller public sector recruiters are among the main beneficiaries of changes to rules aimed at easing UK businesses’ access to public sector contracts, employment lawyers have said.

Nicholas appoints Gribben to new M&A role

Nicholas Associates Ltd, the holding company that owns UK-wide recruiter Stafforce and recruitment and consultancy firm Nicholas Associates, has appointed Victoria Gribben to a newly created senior position of corporate development director.