• Beamery, an AI-powered talent platform, has launched a range of new products to help organisations build more agile workforce plans, manage talent risk and maximise ROI from talent investments. The new products are: Talent Risk Management Dashboard; Vacancy Calibration Assistant; and Talent Marketing Control Panel.

The company also announced a new skills marketplace, and welcomed Workday, SAP and TalentNeuron as Gold Tier partners. These launch partners will have exclusive access to Beamery’s skills API, for two-way skill and role taxonomy integrations. This will give shared customers consistent skills data across their HCM and talent systems.

• Hiyrd app, a free app for hospitality jobseekers, has expanded its presence from Liverpool to Birmingham. Hiyrd offers a solution where jobseekers scroll through a video feed of local vacancies and respond to employer-set questions via short videos, similar to TikTok, eliminating the need for CVs and cover letters.

• Following its acquisition by UK private equity firm Inspirit Capital, talent and reskill training partner Wiley Edge has rebranded as mthree. mthree now covers clients’ talent needs across all levels of seniority, focusing on providing job-ready and diverse emerging talent (Alumni), experienced professionals (expert) and custom training solutions for current employees (reskill). Together, mthree’s services build skilled teams at every level, addressing the growing need for new talent while upskilling existing employees in the latest skills, according to a company press release.

• Recruiter Reuben Jenkins has launched Techmunity, a specialist technology recruitment agency focused on building teams and communities. Techmunity says it is committed to social impact and therefore has pledged to donate 5% of profits to CodeYourFuture, a non-profit who provides training and support to individuals from underrepresented backgrounds to help them join the tech industry.