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Recruitment Innovation Exchange (RIX) will act as an independent forum for discussion of critical industry issues

Just about every recruitment agency will tell you they’re the best, but how many are embracing innovative personalised video technology to ensure they really offer you the best possible recruitment service?

Majority of Industry Professionals Have Never Witnessed a Robot Stealing a Job

UK employers with more than 250 staff will be required by law to analyse gender pay and bonus figures from 6th April 2017

While many big companies have an HR department with a Recruitment and Staff Development team on site, smaller companies do recruiting within a small office setting.

…New data reveals that 96% of CV-Library customers rate the job board’s service as ‘good’ or ‘excellent’

By Toby Conibear, Global Sales Director at Bond International Software

A new study has found that mindfulness can be used to achieve successful change in organisations.

A surprising number of job ads still use gender-biased language in the quest for perfect candidates, but some industries are bucking the trend. The technology industry was amongst the least biased of all UK sectors, found new research by job search engine Adzuna.

The Office of National Statistics recently released its February UK Labour market bulletin which reported that the UK employment rate was 74.6% - the highest since records began in 1971. However, the same report also stated the there is still 1.6 million unemployed people in the UK that are seeking and available to start work. Therefore, there is still a large demand for recruiters to place candidates.

Recruitment software specialist Hireserve has donated its ATS technology to power ‘The Volunteer Pool’, a new online platform which encourages staff volunteering.

Textkernel has been developing the use of nested fields in its semantic search product. In this blog post Ruben Geerlings, Head of Architecture at Textkernel, explains how this can be used for more complex search queries and better search results.

As Britain’s EU Ambassador gives official notice of the UK’s decision to leave the EU to the European Council, under Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty, Samantha Hurley, Operations Director at APSCo, comments:

International media group Schibsted, has appointed Nicki Dexter, former HR director of Telefonica Digital. Nicki joins as vice president of HR – Products and Technology.