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FINANCIALS: Staffline results exceed market expectations

Recruitment group Staffline has announced a strong performance for the year ended 31 December 2024.

Financials, Your recruitment business 8 April 2025
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New industries’ struggle to find skilled workers damaging to UK growth

Business leaders and educators issued a warning to the government.

Your business, Your recruitment business 4 March 2025

Nicholas Associates Group acquires Smart Temporary Solutions

Nicholas Associates Group (NA Group), a leading provider of talent management solutions across the UK, has acquired Smart Temporary Solutions.

Your recruitment business, Temporary workforce 10 February 2025

FINANCIALS: Staffline defies recruitment’s downward trend

Recruitment and training company Staffline Group has reported a 9% increase in gross profits, bucking the recent downward trend posted by recruitment firms.

Financials, Your recruitment business 4 February 2025

APPOINTMENTS: 3-7 FEBRUARY 2025

This week’s appointments include: Be Personnel, Calibre One, RAMP Global, Ultimate Finance

Supplier, Your recruitment business 4 February 2025

Circle appoints Pirate Kelly as chairman

Recruitment organisation Circle has appointed Dean Kelly (left), co-founder of RDLC Pirates, as chairman.
 

Your recruitment business 3 February 2025

Outsource UK joins Sanderson Solutions Group

Global recruitment solutions firm Sanderson has acquired Outsource UK, offering growth and increased capability opportunities for colleagues, candidates and clients alike.

Your recruitment business 13 December 2024

CONTRACTS & DEALS: 2-6 DECEMBER 2024

This week’s new contracts & deals include: Bluestones Group, Dynamite Recruitment, SHK, TalentPredix

Supplier, Your business 4 December 2024

Sphere Digital Recruitment acquires JasperRose to support expansion

Sphere Digital Recruitment has acquired London-based recruitment agency JasperRose.

Your recruitment business 19 November 2024

Staffline companies awarded new and extended contracts

Staffline has won new and extended contracts, the recruitment and training group announced today.

Your recruitment business, Temporary workforce 5 October 2020

Outlook not all gloom and doom post-Covid, says economist

Despite job losses, floundering businesses and Brexit, the economic outlook for the UK over the next 18 months is brighter than some might think.

Your business, Your recruitment business 1 October 2020

Aldi invests in UK stores and creates 4,000 new jobs

Aldi will add 4,000 permanent new jobs in the UK in 2021 as part of a promised £1.3bn investment between this year and next.

In-house recruitment 29 September 2020

CONTRACTS & DEALS: 28 SEPTEMBER-2 OCTOBER 2020

This week’s new contracts & deals include: Beringer Tame, CIPHR, PBS, Recruitment Entrepreneur

Supplier 28 September 2020

Amazon pulls controversial job ads for ‘intelligence’ analysts

Two job adverts for analysts, whose duties would include monitoring social media and other sources for organised labour activities, have been abruptly pulled by retail giant Amazon after creating controversy on both sides of the Atlantic.

In-house recruitment 3 September 2020

APPOINTMENTS: 1-4 SEPTEMBER 2020

This week’s appointments include: MET Marketing, Recruit 2 You

1 September 2020

New Street Consulting Group undergoes rebrand

Overseas expansion plans play a major role in future strategy for people solutions provider New Street Consulting Group.

Your recruitment business 26 August 2020

People 1st International partners with charity to help travel industry

Skills expert People 1st International is helping people in the travel industry to transfer to other sectors.

Your business, Your recruitment business 12 August 2020

Free lunch vouchers for office workers to boost city sandwich bars

Would a £5 lunch voucher incentivise you or your team to return to the office?

Your business 12 August 2020

North-West recruiter enjoys summer boom in temp placements

A Birkenhead-headquartered recruitment business reports it is enjoying significant success in placing more temporary workers this summer in driving, logistics, distribution and warehousing jobs than at the same time in previous years.

Your recruitment business, Temporary workforce 4 August 2020

Circle Select dives down for talent, but who is narrating the video?

Sir David Attenborough knows a things about the natural world, but he is not the first name that comes to mind when it comes to promoting a recruitment business.

Your recruitment business 30 July 2020

Recruitment bright spots amid jobs carnage

After Marks & Spencer’s announcement yesterday that it plans to shed 900 jobs – just the latest in a litany of bad news on the jobs front – recruiters could be excused for feeling a bit gloomy.

Your recruitment business, Temporary workforce 21 July 2020

Letter demands licensing of garment factories

More than 50 MPs and Peers alongside leading retailers, as well as the Association of Labour Providers, are calling on the home secretary Priti Patel to take urgent action to prevent the exploitation of garment workers in the UK.

Your business, Workplace 21 July 2020

Employee numbers down but Avon reports surge in new reps calling

The number of employees on payrolls in the UK was down in June by nearly 650,000 from March this year, but the decline appears to be slowing.

Temporary workforce 16 July 2020

Chancellor hand-outs to stimulate jobs and economy

Vouchers for meals out, a 15% VAT cut on hospitality and tourism offerings, and a £1k bonus to employers who bring back furloughed employees were among the initiatives revealed today by Chancellor Rishi Sunak.

Your business, Your recruitment business 8 July 2020

CONTRACTS & DEALS: 6-10 JULY 2020

This week’s new contracts & deals include: Cornerstone OnDemand, IR35.io, Kingsbridge Group, Resume-Library, SNAPP Resume, Wagestream

Supplier, Your recruitment business 8 July 2020
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