From New Year Honours, raising thousands of pounds for good causes and winning awards, to some recruiters not living up to the high standards expected by clients and candidates, 2019 was certainly an eventful year for the industry. 

Here are some more of the highlights we reported on:

The year started off with the news that Luke Williams, CEO of Ignata had been awarded an OBE for services to SMEs. Williams joined three other directors of recruitment and training companies recognised in the New Year’s Honours list.

February brought bad news for recruitment and training company Staffline, as it was forced to delay its financial results.

Also that month, we reported that the Recruitment & Employment Confederation had expelled Southampton-based recruiter ARZ Management as a member.

March saw recruiter.co.uk highlight the valuable work done by Cordant People, part of Cordant Group, as it launched a partnership with homeless charity Centrepoint.

In April, we reported that Amberjack, a specialist in designing and delivering early careers and large-scale recruitment programmes for blue-chip organisations, had secured a £17.6m investment.

And the following month in May saw us celebrating and reporting on the Recruiter Awards held at London’s Grosvenor House, where NES Global Talent was one of the night’s biggest winners.

Present at the Awards, representing Recruiter’s Charity of the Year Astriid, was Joanne Self-Shutts, the wife of the charity’s founder David Shutts who passed away in 2018. She spoke to recruiter.co.uk about the charity’s ongoing work.

In June, we reported how a football tournament organised by Madison Warner raised much needed funds for a mental health charity.

Also in June, we reported the sad loss of Rupert Whewell, managing director of executive search firm Bateman Gray, who was killed in a climbing accident in the Indian Himalayas.

In June, we reported that Dan Langford, director of Wales-headquartered recruiter Acorn Recruitment, had been named in the Queen’s birthday honours list.

Also in the same month, we revealed recruitment boss Simon Wooding from Altrincham in Cheshire had been disqualified as a director for the second time.

In July, we highlighted how staff at Worcester-based recruitment agency Workforce Staffing had helped to bring to justice an evil crime syndicate.

August saw us reporting the case of Tawhid Juneja, former CEO of UK healthcare recruitment agency Primary Care People (PCP), who was sentenced to 33 months in prison for coercive and controlling behaviour and two counts of assaulting his wife by beating.

In September we revealed that Pieter van Oorschot, the former MD of a Portsmouth-based recruitment agency, had been jailed for having £14.5k worth of cocaine in his desk drawer.

In October, we revealed the winners of Recruiter’s prestigious Investing in Talent Awards, showcasing and celebrating those companies that truly walk the walk when it comes to investing in and developing their greatest asset – people.

In the same month, we reported that a Muslim recruitment consultant had been awarded more than £22.5k in compensation after an agency director made racist and religious discriminatory comments about her.

Finally, in November we highlighted some of the incredible fundraising for charities and good causes that is carried out day in, day out by companies big and small across the industry.

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