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Cobalt Recruitment appoints new UK managing director

Cobalt Recruitment has announced the appointment of Maria Sinclair as the new managing director of its UK operations.

Engineering, Construction & property 25 April 2025

Robert Walters promotes three senior managers globally

Global talent solutions recruiter Robert Walters has made three senior appointments across its business.

Recruitment Process Outsourcing 24 April 2025

APPOINTMENTS: 14-18 APRIL 2025

This week’s appointments include: Eventus Recruitment Group, Matrix, SPG Resourcing

Public sector, Social care 14 April 2025

CONTRACTS & DEALS: 14-18 APRIL 2025

This week’s new contracts & deals include: Greene King, Insights, Workday

IT/Telecoms, HR 14 April 2025

NEW TO THE MARKET: 14-18 APRIL 2025

This week’s new launches include: Busy Bee Recruitment, Deel

Creative/Digital/Media, Engineering 14 April 2025

Cheshire-headquartered Gap Personnel acquired by Rcapital

Cheshire-headquartered recruitment agency Gap Personnel has been acquired by Rcapital in a corporate carve-out.

Social care, Transport & logistics 14 April 2025

Businesses need to be patient for OPW rules to change

Small businesses will need to wait a few more years before being relinquished of their off-payroll working obligations.

14 April 2025

Californian master plan calls for new statewide collaborative to align education, training and hiring needs

In the US, the state of California is proposing to launch digital career passports for the labour market.

Public sector, Creative/Digital/Media 14 April 2025

APPOINTMENTS: 7-11 APRIL 2025

This week’s appointments include: Aspen, Eames Consulting, Sydney Mitchell, the rec hub

Banking/Financial services, Executive search 10 April 2025

Soundbites May 2019

A recent poll of more than 2,000 UK workers found that 56% of people don’t agree that recruiters add anything to the recruitment process. Do you agree?

17 April 2019
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Innovation? It's child's play

Recruiters could do a lot worse than learning from child entrepreneurs, as Roisin Woolnough explains

17 April 2019

Ask the expert: May 2019

I’m billing £600k and am thinking of setting up my own recruitment business. What advice would you give me?

17 April 2019
Heather Deland

Heather DeLand: Recruitment excludes people and we can’t change that

Recruitment campaigns can be much closer to marketing than we think.

17 April 2019
Holding a bag of money

Time running out to get the IR35 rules right

The clock is ticking on getting the rules around IR35 right, warns the REC.

17 April 2019
Neil Carberry full Resolution June 2018

The View: What will recruitment look like in 20 years?

Here’s a question to ponder, says Neil Carberry, REC chief executive: what will recruitment look like in 20 years?  

17 April 2019
Intelligence Puzzling Productivity

The Intelligence: Puzzling productivity

The UK’s jobs market has been incredibly strong over the past few years, with figures from the ONS showing record high rates of employment and the lowest unemployment rates since the mid-1970s.

17 April 2019
Stats

Average debtor days continue to nudge higher

The latest information from Recruitment Industry Benchmarking’s RIB Index shows that the median industry recruiter has continued to experience a rise in the average number of debtor days – up to an average of 52.8 across 2018.

17 April 2019
Checklist Checkboard

Legal update: Changes to right to work checks

The REC helps answer questions over right to work checks for non-UK nationals.

HR 17 April 2019
Denis Portrait Colour

IRP May 2019: Releasing business potential

Denis O’Driscoll, founder of interim management specialis Corvint Fox, on releasing business potential.

17 April 2019
Richard Jones

IRP May 2019: Effective executive recruitment

Richard Jones, executive search director at Forward Role, on effective executive recruitment.

17 April 2019

Latest training courses from the REC

The courses over the next two months that will help you to perform at your best, and deliver for your team.

17 April 2019
Barometer iStock

Recruitment Sector Barometer: Double down on development time

How much time should recruiters spend on business development?

17 April 2019

Recruiters urged to get anti-racism reporting policies in order

Recruiters have been urged to review reporting procedures for their own staff and agency workers out on assignment in light of shocking new research revealing the extent of racism in Britain’s workplaces.

15 April 2019

Booze bans for staff? Recruiters give their reactions

Recruiters are largely against following the lead of Lloyds of London in imposing booze bans for staff and anyone entering their offices.

12 April 2019

Amberjack secures £17m+ investment for MBO

Amberjack, a specialist in designing and delivering early careers and large-scale recruitment programmes for blue-chip organisations, has secured a £17.6m investment from mid-market private equity investor LDC, the private equity arm of Lloyds Banking Group.

Recruitment Process Outsourcing, IT/Telecoms 8 April 2019
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