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

Agency workers at UK’s well-known retailer told to stay at home

Marks & Spencer (M&S) has ordered hundreds of agency workers at its main distribution centre to stay at home.

Retail, Transport & logistics, IT/Telecoms 28 April 2025
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APPOINTMENTS: 28 APRIL-2 MAY 2025

This week’s appointments include: Eames Consulting, Oyster, Starfish Search

Public sector, Charity & not-for-profit, Executive search, Interim recruitment, HR 28 April 2025

CONTRACTS & DEALS: 28 APRIL-2 MAY 2025

This week’s new contracts & deals include: 55/Redefined, AMS, In2Dialog

ContractsRecruitment Process Outsourcing, Creative/Digital/Media 28 April 2025

NEW TO THE MARKET: 28 APRIL-2 MAY 2025

This week’s new launches include: Matchtech, Jobmatch Sweden

New to MarketLife sciences, Engineering 28 April 2025

Cobalt Recruitment appoints new UK managing director

Cobalt Recruitment has announced the appointment of Maria Sinclair as the new managing director of its UK operations.

PeopleEngineering, Construction & property 25 April 2025

National student lettings agency launches apprenticeship scheme

A student lettings agency based in Loughborough is helping young professionals kickstart their careers with a new apprenticeship scheme.

New to MarketConstruction & property, Graduates/Apprentices/School leavers 25 April 2025

Sheffield director of umbrella company banned for VAT fraud

The boss of an umbrella company that failed to pay more than £2.5m in VAT has been banned as a director.

PeopleHR, Accounting/Finance 24 April 2025

Robert Walters promotes three senior managers globally

Global talent solutions recruiter Robert Walters has made three senior appointments across its business.

PeopleRecruitment Process Outsourcing 24 April 2025

Airswift to host UK pavilion at WETEX in Dubai

Airswift, global workforce solutions provider for the energy, process and infrastructure sectors, has partnered with the Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA) and UK Trade & Investment (UKTI) to host the UK pavilion at WETEX 2016.
IT/Telecoms, Engineering 20 July 2016

Mobile-friendly searching

Google recently finished rolling out its ‘mobile-friendly algorithm boost’. This means that mobile-friendly websites appear higher up the search results if the user is searching on a mobile phone. Those that aren’t mobile-ready may find themselves slipping down the rankings.
IT/Telecoms, Creative/Digital/Media 19 July 2016

Morson’s Mason is new co-owner of Sale Sharks

The group chief executive of a UK engineering, rail and technical recruiter is the new co-owner of rugby union outfit Sale Sharks.
IT/Telecoms, Engineering 19 July 2016

Transitioning from refugee to worker

A not-for-profit social enterprise company is venturing into an area that most employers and recruitment agencies fear to tread. Transitions London, founded in 2010, aims to help arguably the most marginalised group in the UK labour market: refugees. The figures tell their own story, with the unemployment rate for refugees at around 70%, according to a Department of Work and Pensions research paper in 2002, far higher than for the general population.
Education 19 July 2016

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19 July 2016

Airswift grows its global mobility

Global mobility will be “the biggest growth area” for Airswift, the company recently formed by the merger of Air Energi and Swift Technical Resources, as it expands its core services, chief executive Peter Searle has told Recruiter.
Engineering, Life sciences 19 July 2016

Star Recruit: David Cameron

Julia Henderson, managing director, Drummond Read Recruitment, offers insight into a potential role for Prime Minister David Cameron, who has stepped down from his role as leading the uk following the country ’s vote to leave the European Union.
18 July 2016

Primary Care People insures to get more GPs in the house

A medical recruitment company has launched a free insurance product for GPs on its books that the firm’s managing director expects will ease the current shortage of GPs in the NHS.
Public sector 18 July 2016

Gattaca name gets to the DNA of Matchtech Group

Matchtech Group’s choice of Gattaca as its new name reflects the genetic history of the international recruitment group, according to chief executive Brian Wilkinson.
IT/Telecoms, Engineering 18 July 2016

Entrepreneur Jones becomes government’s SME Rep

The Crown Commercial Service, an executive agency of the Cabinet Office, has appointed entrepreneur and author Emma Jones MBE as small business crown representative.
18 July 2016

Vanquish launches Work & Accrue

Workplace management software and hardware developer Vanquish Integrated People Solutions has introduced a new formula to its time management software to help organisations calculate the amount of annual leave and holiday pay that workers on zero-hours contracts are entitled to.
IT/Telecoms 18 July 2016

RecruitMyBuddy hits on referral recruitment model

Referral recruitment specialist RecruitMyBuddy has launched.
IT/Telecoms 18 July 2016

Headstart App matches up to blue-chip firms

Graduate job matching solution Headstart App is currently being trialled by blue-chip organisations.
IT/Telecoms 18 July 2016

Higher productivity jobs good news for recruiters

Plans put forward by the MP in charge of Brexit for an economy based on higher productivity jobs could be good news for agencies operating in highly skilled markets, recruiters say.
IT/Telecoms, Executive search 15 July 2016

Coroner records suicide in death of Major Players' Helen Stokes

A verdict of suicide “while the balance of her mind was disturbed” has been recorded in the death of Helen Stokes, the late managing director of marketing and creative recruiter Major Players, Poplar Coroner's Court has confirmed to Recruiter.
Creative/Digital/Media, Executive search 15 July 2016

Bluestones Investment Group takes on Stratford

Bluestones Investment Group, an investment platform for specialist recruitment businesses, has appointed Trish Stratford as chief executive professional staffing.
Executive search 15 July 2016

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