• Global recruiter Phaidon International’s EPM Scientific has launched in Boston, Massachusetts. The launch will provide a physical presence to support clients in the region.

EPM will initially focus on providing talent to clients across the following sectors: clinical operations, regulatory, quality, safety/pharmacovigilance and research & development.

• Global recruiter Frank Recruitment Group has launched a free online course aimed at those aspiring to become sales and recruitment specialists. The qualification is made up of a full course in the basics of recruitment but is related to the wider industry rather than working at Frank Recruitment.

• Alex Arnot, a non-executive adviser to more than 20 recruitment firms, has launched How to Bill Big – a new training programme.

The programme, which begins on 25 May, provides 10 x 60-min live, in-depth, interactive, online sessions sharing strategies and tactics to improve the performance of recruiters billing under £500k per year.

• Executive recruiting software firm Invenias has launched the next generation of its Cloud Platform. Invenias X has been designed to cope with the rapid introduction of ongoing future innovation from Invenias and enable easy integration of partner applications.