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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

Cheshire-headquartered Gap Personnel acquired by Rcapital

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

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.

APPOINTMENTS: 7-11 APRIL 2025

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

NEW TO THE MARKET: 7-11 APRIL 2025

This week’s new launches include: HRGO, Sowena Group

Stott and May promotes MD for the Americas to group CEO

Stott and May, a provider of talent and project solutions to high-growth technology businesses, has appointed Laura Beavis as group CEO.

KnownFour chooses Morton as adviser

Professional services staffing firm KnownFour has appointed Lynn Morton as non-executive adviser.

Insight Executive Group brings in Keats

Corporate and public sector staffing specialist Insight Executive Group has appointed Andi Keats as operations manager.

Heidrick & Struggles appoints two

Global executive search firm Heidrick & Struggles has appointed Lisa Baird to its to its leadership consulting practice.
Executive search, HR 27 May 2016

Ashley Kate HR appoints Brown head of ops

Ashley Kate HR has appointed Karen Brown as head of operations.
HR 27 May 2016

Armstrong Craven boosts management team

Armstrong Craven, a specialist in global talent mapping and pipelining, has bolstered its senior management team with a number of appointments.

Freedom ‘key’ for recruiters in open-plan offices

Recruiters and other employers using open-plan offices as workspaces should use neutral colours and natural materials to help employees work at their best “in a world that shouts”, says a leading office furniture designer.

Liverpool FC hosts final recruitment event for 1,000 roles

Liverpool Football Club is hosting a recruitment event to support its drive to fill 1,000 new roles across its matchday kitchen, retail, catering, safety, hospitality, tours and museum teams, ahead of the opening of a new 20,500-seater stand at its Anfield home this summer.
26 May 2016

McDonald’s recruits robots in place of staff? Hasta la vista baby

McDonald’s have denied claims by its former chief executive that it plans to recruit robots in place of staff to cut costs.
IT/Telecoms, HR 26 May 2016

Trust hosts event to promote working in Hull NHS

Hull and East Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust is today hosting a launch event for a recruitment campaign featuring the ‘promise’ of a job to outstanding students before they even open their results envelope.
26 May 2016

Lord Sugar hired as enterprise tsar

Lord Alan Sugar has been appointed as enterprise tsar for a second time, as part of the government’s drive to get more young people to consider starting their own business or to take up an apprenticeship.
25 May 2016

CMA accuses agencies of unmodel behaviour

The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has today accused five UK modelling agencies of collusion and price fixing, breaching competition law.
Creative/Digital/Media, HR 25 May 2016

Walmart workforce equation aims to balance staff turnover

Walmart is working on a way of measuring optimal staff turnover that balances high retention with workforce productivity.
25 May 2016

Aviva promises to have 30% women on its board going forward

Global insurer Aviva has committed to ensure at least 30% of its executive committee are women now and going forward, in a statement it released yesterday.
25 May 2016

Further changes are Tweet news for digital recruiters

Digital recruiters have warmly welcomed wider changes to Twitter to enable them to better reach out to candidates and clients alike.

Recruiters gear up for potential fracking jobs boom

Recruiters are gearing up for a potential shale gas jobs boom created by the decision to allow fracking in North Yorkshire.

Fircroft acquires Australian One Key Resources

Global workforce solutions provider to technical engineering sectors Fircroft has acquired Australian firm One Key Resources, a specialist staffing provider to the mining, oil & gas and infrastructure industries.
Engineering 24 May 2016
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