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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.

The hair and beauty industry is set to give the UK’s job market a major boost by creating almost 50,000 employment opportunities in 2017.

Ahead of the enforcement of gender pay gap reporting on 6 April, Dr Sumita Ketkar, Senior Lecturer in Leadership and Professional Development at Westminster Business School, believes the legislation is a positive step towards solving a problem of ‘mindsets’ when it comes to equal pay:

The Government’s crackdown on “disguised employment” has officially begun with a change which comes into effect from next week that will see tens of thousands of public sector contractors have their net take home pay slashed by as much as 20%.

The total number of UK vacancies increased by 3.5% to 1,126,376 in February, according to the latest UK Job Market Report from Adzuna.co.uk.

Maximising employee happiness has become an ever more prevalent topic in today's workforce. Many companies are placing greater focus on workplace culture “hacks”, such as flexible working hours and team building, in the hope that they will create happy and productive workers.

PIXID SAS (“the Company”), the French leader for cloud based temporary workforce management and recruitment solutions, has completed the acquisition of The Internet Corporation, owner of the award-winning applicant tracking system and recruitment software Amris. The transaction has been completed for an undisclosed amount.

Andreas Kopp, a German graduate from Nuremburg has won the Theta Award and the top prize of €4,000 in a worldwide competition to find the best new idea for improving HR and recruitment practice.

HotLizard are excited to announce that our latest design on Recruiter Sites is now available and at the same cost as our previous designs.

Following amendments made to the IR35 aspect of the Finance Bill last week, ARC has written to MPs, drawing to their attention some of the most important anomalies in HMRC’s approach.

Standards in Recruitment (SiR), the industry’s first independent accreditation for recruitment businesses is pleased to announce that market-leading financial services and public sector specialists Campion Willcocks, has completed the SIR recertification process having successfully passed a combined legal and operational audit. This is the third year that Campion Willcocks has been able to fly the SiR ‘mark of excellence’ flag.