According to its 4th Global Salary Planning Report UK-based pay and reward consultancy 3R Strategy is forecasting a higher than inflation wage rise for UK employees for the first time since the pandemic. In 2022, with UK inflation soaring to 8.6 per cent, most organisations set their pay budgets at 5 per cent. A year later, […]

Research from Towergate Employee Benefits, has found over a third (37 per cent) of companies with employees based outside of the UK believe they do not offer enough health and wellbeing support and that this is impacting on their ability to recruit and retain people. “It could be seen as a positive that overseas employers at least […]

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C&M Travel Recruitment has announced that Managing Director and minority shareholder Barbara (Basia) Kolosinska and Sales Director Duncan Tingle have completed a management buyout of the leading travel recruitment agency. The pair have purchased the remaining share capital from former Chairman Angus Chisholm, who founded the company in 1998, meaning they will own 100 per cent of the organisation. […]

Executive search and interim management specialists HW Group has launched a new finance division, enabling it to offer a full multi-disciplinary service. HW Finance, as the new business will be known, will be led by a four-strong team who have joined from the Leeds office of Marks Sattin which they built from a start-up 14 […]

STEM specialist recruiters SThree say professionals in five of the world’s leading STEM economies are wasting an average of six hours weekly due to limited access to advanced AI tools. The SThree study, “How the STEM world works“, estimates that this lack of AI tools is costing the 59 million STEM workers in the US, UK, […]

Pipedrive, the sales CRM for small businesses, today released further data from its State of Sales and Marketing report into small business working habits and success factors. Previous analysis from the same report revealed how AI tools enable both happier employees and healthier business revenue, how staff were positive about AI’s impact on their future work, and […]

Manchester based recruitment agency, Kingdom People have appointed Neil Duggins, to drive growth plans for Kingdom People Managed Services. Earlier this year, the business merged their Bury and Oldham branches to form Kingdom People Manchester. As Kingdom People, part of Kingdom Services Group, continues its trajectory of rapid growth, the appointment of Neil Duggins as […]

Following Chancellor Rachel Reeve’s first Budget APSCo and APSCo OutSource have already raised concerns that the NICs rise has the potential for negative consequences on recruitment and, subsequently, economic growth. “While employers’ contributions to NICs hasn’t been increased by as much as was speculated, we are worried that this has the potential to inadvertently hinder […]

Despite the possible hike in National Insurance contributions coming as now surprise, and indeed the scale of the increase being in some cases lower than expected, it is still this impact that will probably affect recruiters the most: “We’ve heard from our customers – some of the UK’s biggest recruiters – that the increase in […]

nGAGE Talent, one of the largest privately owned UK recruitment groups, has acquired Science Solutions Recruitment Limited the specialist Life Sciences and Chemical Engineering recruitment business. Hot on the heels of it’s recent South African acquisition of Smart4Energy, the march further into super niche STEM end markets for the nGAGE Talent Group continues on apace. […]

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