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The deverellsmith group have announced a new office location which will serve the Middle East region. The office is set to specialise as a talent consultancy, with services including executive search, talent advisory, and outsourced project recruitment exclusively for property, real estate and construction sectors.

Employers responded to an REC survey saying they are eager for changes in the Spring Budget that will help them to hire and invest. When asked to rank what their organisation most needs to hear from the Chancellor in next week’s Spring Budget, well over a third (41.7 per cent of respondents) said improving the tax system to support business investment. This was well ahead of the second most popular answer, which was greater childcare support for parents (11.3 per cent).

A female founder who was denied support because her business didn’t have ‘hyper-scale potential’ has seen her company named, for a second year in a row, in the Financial Times 1000 list of Europe’s fastest-growing companies.

The UK’s gender pay gap has extended to 14.5 per cent, dropping them from 13th to 17th ranking in PwC’s Women In Work Index, the largest annual fall of rankings experienced by any OECD country this year. The report has shown that women are facing a ‘pay penalty’, earning only 90p compared to an equally qualified man earning a £1.

Global talent solutions provider The IN Group has appointed Charlotte Roberts as Chief People Officer to oversee the organisation's People & Culture Function on a global scale.  

Following a tough few months of cutbacks in the technology and IT sector, data from specialist recruitment firm, Robert Half, suggests that a hiring boom could be on the cards. However, with the recently announced government-backed Skills Bootcamps, tech skills shortages are once again in the spotlight. With average pay packets for entry-level roles within cloud computing hitting £70k and overall average pay in tech 55 per cent more than the national average, businesses clearly need to ‘budget’ for top salaries should they want top tech talent.   

HMRC’s customer service levels have fallen to an “all-time low”, with taxpayers suffering from a tax authority that is “struggling to cope”, a report published by the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) has revealed. The report expresses concern over HMRC’s performance, which has continued its five-year decline. 

The Institute of Job Aggregators (IJA) has announced its global panel as the industry embraces its plans to support, grow, and drive change across the Global Job Aggregator Industry. The panel includes representatives from Talent, AppCast, CareerWallet, JobMatix and ClickJobs and following the quarterly members meeting the group has outlined the institute plans for 2024.

Research from Crown Workspace suggests that almost half (46 per cent) of hybrid workers believe their office or workspace does not suit a hybrid working model...

Job vacancies in the UK have fallen below 900,000 for the first time since April 2021 as companies continue to slow down hiring plans. According to the UK Job Market Report by job search engine Adzuna, monthly job vacancies fell to 867,436 in January 2024. This represents both a year-on-year decline of -14.62 per cent, compared to January 2023, and a month-on-month drop of -6.64 per cent compared to December. 

Forsyth Barnes, executive talent partner, has officially moved into their new state-of the-art London office in Moorgate, promising to provide colleagues with an open, inviting space to promote collaboration and enhanced client offering.

Pay gaps remain a major challenge across the UK, and the latest findings from the CIPD’s Pay, performance and transparency 2024 report, supported by ADP, show that an alarming number of employers are not conducting their gender pay gap reporting in line with government requirements.