NEW TO THE MARKET: 26-30 JUNE 2017

Latest new launches, openings or products within the recruitment industry, including: Airswift, Argyll Scott, BSI, Cartus Corporation, CILT, National Locums, NonStop Recruitment, Talentpuddle, Technically Compatible, The Best Connection

• Global workforce solutions provider for the energy, process and infrastructure sectors Airswift is to launch three new strategic delivery centres.

The sites, located in Baku in Azerbaijan, Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia and Brazil’s Rio de Janerio, will employ more than 30 new staff dedicated to 24/7 global client recruitment support for large-scale and expat hiring.

The centres will focus solely on building candidate databases and recruiting for global positions across all sectors – in particular energy where hiring is ramping up as well as proactively developing contractor candidate pools within emerging client sectors such as power, rail and telecommunications.

• International multifunctional specialist recruiter Argyll Scott is delighted to announce has completed its move from its offices at 71 Kingsway to the Hydrogen Group’s London office at 30 Eastcheap, London, EC3M 1HD, following the completion of the merger between the two agencies.

In a statement released today, the firms said the move, part of a 100-day integration plan, will strengthen the group’s position in the London market and facilitate greater collaboration between the Argyll Scott and Hydrogen operations, as well as benefitting from economies of scale and combined purchasing power.

• Business standards company BSI has launched a new standard for employers to provide guidance for good practice on valuing their employees through diversity & inclusion.

The standard, BS 76005 ‘Valuing people through diversity and inclusion – code of practice for organisations’, is relevant to all organisations, whatever their size, sector and level of maturity. It provides recommendations for undertaking, reviewing, assessing and undertaking a competent and principled approach to diversity & inclusion in the workplace.

The recommendations cover people management and development, and the evolution of more inclusive policies, procedures, practices and behaviours within organisations supporting diversity, along with the building of productive relationships with others – whether they are customers, clients or people within communities.

• Global provider of relocation services Cartus Corporation has moved to larger premises in São Paolo, Brazil.

The firm, which opened its first office in São Paolo in October 2014, is located one block from Paulista Avenue, São Paolo’s largest financial and corporate district.

• The Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport (CILT) and ITN Productions have launched Driving the Future, highlighting the range of career paths available to work within the transport and logistics sector.

The news and current-affairs style programme is fronted by national newsreader Natasha Kaplinsky, who speaks to CILT CEO Kevin Richardson about the range of highly skilled and rewarding jobs in the sector, and how people are unaware of the career paths and transferable skills available to those working within and supporting the supply chain.

The programme also features interviews with industry figures and news-style reports, along with sponsored editorial profiles of organisations helping to drive change within the industry including BT, Close Brothers Asset Finance, GT Nexus, Key Fuels, Sealed Air and SSI Schaefer.

The programme premiered on 8t June at the CILT Annual Conference and Dinner at Chesford Grange, Kenilworth and can be viewed on the CILT’s website or on the CILT YouTube channel.

• Medical recruitment agency National Locums has expanded its mental health division.

While the division has traditionally recruited psychiatrists and mental health nurses, the expanded division will now supply psychologists – clinical, forensic and counselling – as well as psychotherapists, and other professionals working in the mental health arena, including psychological wellbeing practitioners, occupational therapists, social workers and family therapists.

NonStop Recruitment, a Europe-wide specialist in the pharma, medical devices, chemical, care, digital, education and technical markets, has launched new division – NonStop Finance.

Adrian Dickinson heads up the new division, joining as NonStop Finance divisional lead. His move follows nearly 20 years building teams in the banking & financial services, IT, change and social care markets, with large recruitment firms. He was managing director of Capita’s Social Care businesses, and director at Hays within its financial markets division.

Dickinson will initially work with existing UK contacts and look to tackle the Swiss market, with the long-term view to offer NonStop Finance services across all major European financial centres.

The appointment coincides with NonStop setting its sights on going global in 2019 with 99% organically grown talent via its own in-house recruitment training academy.

• A former senior talent acquisition manager at software giant Symantec is launching a recruitment platform known as Talentpuddle.

Founded by talent acquisition expert Martin Dangerfield, the platform aims to provide clients with a quick and competitive method of recruitment through machine learning. This method analyses existing applicant tracking systems or HR data with current job specifications to bring up all possible candidate matches using competencies, skills and experience not just keywords or job titles.

The system works in real time and makes, what Dangerfield calls, “blind” matches in the aim of eliminating unconscious bias.

Dangerfield revealed the platform is currently receiving a “soft” launch with a demo site being prepared in the next few weeks. He added he is currently talking to companies willing to be early adopters of the platform.

• Sunderland-based recruitment platform Technically Compatible has expanded its services to the Philippines.

North-East paper The Chronicle reports the international expansion follows the Wearside tech company being enlisted by global software firm Cloud Employee to help it source talent.

Cloud Employee has offices in the UK, Australia and the Philippines, and Technically Compatible will help the company find IT talent for roles it recruits for in the Philippines.

• Flexible workforce solutions provider The Best Connection has opened an office in Woodbridge, Canada.

Located in the suburban centre of the City of Vaughan, Toronto, the branch will serve people looking for temporary work assignments in the fabrication, metal forming, plastics, food, automotive, packaging, warehousing & distribution and recycling sectors.

 

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