Market-leading workforce technology and services platform Matrix is furthering its growth strategy with the acquisition of employment screening business, Security Watchdog, from business process services group Capita. Security Watchdog offers digitalised, smart pre-and post-employment screening solutions, and is the largest EMEA supplier of background checks and a trusted partner to clients across the globe.
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The latest Report on jobs from the REC and KPMG has recorded a further fall in permanent placements, but a rise in temp billings. Vacancy growth has improved for second month running and there has been the softest reduction in candidate supply for nearly two years.
Research from Qualtrics shows that despite having higher levels of education than previous generations, less than one-third (32 per cent) of young people in the UK feel very or extremely prepared by their education for the job market. While 81 per cent of young people said they feel prepared to perform well in a job, only 67 per cent feel prepared to look for a job and only 64 per cent feel prepared to compete against other candidates.
MM Search, Scotland’s award-winning and fastest-growing executive search firm, has appointed Lindsay MacLeod as Associate Partner. This new position will see MacLeod lead the business’s procurement and supply chain sectors while also developing the engineering, manufacturing and logistics offering.
A long-standing Peterborough-based recruitment agency, Anne Corder Recruitment, has launched a bold brand refresh to match its expansion plans. The recruitment specialist is embracing a fresh new look, including an updated website and modernised branding, with plans to further expand its HR recruitment activities across the UK, and to mirror this success within other streams including finance and marketing.
Over half (57 per cent) of employers globally believe that they will lose staff in the first half of 2023 due to higher earning potential in other companies, according to new research.
After a year of labour market shortages post pandemic, the CBI is arguing that business and the government need to stop fighting the same old war for talent and embrace a new set of principles to solve the ongoing people and skills shortages crisis.
Bullhorn’s annual global recruitment survey has found that the recruitment agencies with the highest revenue gains were twice as likely to use these automation and digitisation as those who saw revenue losses.
Operam Education Group – the BGF-backed education recruitment specialist – has completed the latest in a series of acquisitions, as part of its ambitious buy-and-build growth strategy. The company has acquired Lancashire-based Bridge Education Recruitment for an undisclosed sum in a deal supported by BGF – one of the largest and most experienced growth capital investors in the UK and Ireland.
Berry Recruitment has appointed award-winning Katy Thomas as its new regional manager across the south-west. With seven years’ experience at the company Katy will oversee the Cornwall, Devon and South Wales’ operations. She plans to grow the established branches in Truro, Exeter and Newport in terms of turnover and head-count. The south-west area, which also includes Bristol, covers temporary and permanent employment in multiple sectors.
