World – Adecco appoints Chief Human Resources Officer

Adecco, the world’s largest staffing firm, announced today the appointment of Gordana Landen as Chief Human Resources Officer and member of the Executive Committee, with effect from 7 January 2019.

Gordana Landen joins the Adecco Group from Signify (formerly Philips Lighting), where she held the position...

Sweden – Poolia receives greenlight from registration office for Uniflex merger

The Swedish Companies Registration Office (Bolagsverket) approved the merger between Swedish staffing firms Poolia and Uniflex.

The registration office is expected to register the merger on 31 October 2018. Uniflex will then be dissolved and all its assets and liabilities will be transferred to Poolia....

Netherlands – Job vacancy ads up in Q3

No fewer than 4.19 million job vacancy ads were placed online in the Netherlands during the third quarter of this year, according to data from Jobfeed, Textkernel's big data tool for online vacancies.

A total of 4,195,156 vacancy ads were placed online in the Netherlands. Broken down by region South Holland...

World – Hays receives boost from Rest of World and Germany

Hays (HAS: LSE), the sixth largest staffing firm in the world, today reported net fee income growth of 9% on a like-for-like basis for the first quarter ended 30 September 2018, compared with the same period last year. This represented the 22nd consecutive quarter of year-on-year growth for...

Germany – Amadeus FiRe upgrades full year forecast

Amadeus FiRe (AAD: GR), the German staffing firm, announced that its Management Board is raising its previous earnings forecast for the 2018 financial year.

The group said permanent placement developed very positively over the course of 2018, especially in the third quarter. Furthermore, the group’s...

France – DLSI acquires Exelteam and MPC

French staffing firm DLSI has acquired Exelteam, a temporary staffing agency based in Paris. The acquisition also includes Exelteam MPC.

The acquisition is effective from October 8, 2018. No financial details of the transaction were disclosed.

According to DLSI, these acquisitions, whose overall turnover...

UK – Access Group expands recruitment division with acquisition of Microdec

The Access Group, a UK-based software provider to growing mid-market businesses, announced today that it has acquired Microdec, a software supplier with over 35 years’ experience providing CRM software exclusively to the recruitment industry.

“The acquisition of Microdec, with revenues of over £5.3...

Italy – Number of temporary agency workers rises 5.5% in August

The number of temporary agency workers in Italy for August 2018 increased by 5.5% when compared to the same period last year, according to figures from Ebitemp, the bilateral organisation for temporary employment representing employers’ associations and unions.

The total payroll of temporary workers...

UK – Amazon scraps AI recruiting tool that favoured men over women (The Telegraph)

Online retail giant Amazon announced that it has ditched its AI recruiting tool after its machine learning specialists uncovered that their new recruiting engine did not like women, reports The Guardian.  The machine learning specialists team, based in Edinburgh, had been building computer programs...

UK – PageGroup Q3 gross profit up 19% in constant currency with broad-based growth

International specialist recruitment firm PageGroup (MPI: LSE) reported a record group gross profit for the third quarter ending 30 September 2018 of £207.7 million, an increase of 19.7% in constant currency when compared to last year.

Gross profit for the third quarter by region and recruitment type...