• Assessment specialist cut-e has launched smartPredict, a suite of validated psychometric assessments that uses ‘game-style’ challenges, to engage candidates. 

Covering job-related abilities, including logical, spatial and numerical reasoning, smartPredict can be used as part of the recruitment process for any role and is particularly targeted at early career roles involving millennial applicants.

• International recruiter Devire Group has opened an office in the Czech Republic’s capital, Prague, which will be led by Tomas Surka and Martin Schneide.

• HR tech company mroads has launched Paññã – a hiring and recruitment web video conference platform – with $500k (£352k) angel seed funding and a million-dollar injection. Beta clients include Intuit, iCIMS, MobiTV, University of Texas (Dallas) and Anuta Networks.

• Specialist construction recruiter Orchard Recruitment has moved to new offices in Woodhead House in Providence Street in the centre of Wakefield.

• Enterprise cloud applications provider Workday has opened an office in Milan, Italy.