Germany – Job board owner buys stake in human cloud firm Uber

Axel Springer, a German publishing company that also ranks among the world’s largest job board operators, acquired an undisclosed stake in human cloud, ride-sharing firm Uber, according to TechCrunch. Axel Springer owns Germany’s largest newspaper. Job boards it owns include Stepstone, Totaljobs,...

UK – Gattaca H1 2017 revenue reflects Brexit impact

Specialist engineering and professional services staffing firm Gattaca (GATC:LSE), formerly known as Matchtech Group, yesterday reported revenue for the six months ending 31 January 2017 of £304.2 million, an increase of 1% in constant currency compared with £297.9 million during the same period last...

People: Hoffman & Associates, The Change Group, JXT

Executive search organization IIC Partners Executive Search Worldwide announced Ineke Arts has been appointed chair of the Council for Europe and Africa by the Association for Executive Search Consultants. Arts is partner and founder of Hoffman & Associates, a Brussels, Belgium-based executive search...

London — Create flexible workforces now to prepare for job-killing robots, IMF urges governments (City A.M.)

City A.M. reports the rise of job-killing technologies means governments around the world need to act now to prepare their economies, according to the boss of the International Monetary Fund. In the IMF’s global policy agenda, Managing Director Christine Lagarde said governments must act preemptively...

Netherlands – DPA Q1 results hit by the DBA act; announces acquisition

Dutch staffing firm DPA Group (DPA: NL) reported revenue for the first quarter ending 31 March 2017 of €31.1 million, a decrease of 6.3% compared with €33.2 million in Q1 2016.

Switzerland – Lands on top of Global Talent Competitiveness Index

INSEAD, the France-based business school for the world, released the 2017 Global Talent Competitiveness Index 2015-16, an annual study based on research in partnership with the Adecco Group and the Human Capital Leadership Institute of Singapore.

One again, Switzerland again ranked No. 1 on the list.

High...

UK – Employers to increase temp agency headcount as candidate shortage looms

One fifth of employers, 19%, plan to increase temporary agency headcount in the medium term — the next four to 12 months — and 12% plan to do so in the next three months, according to the latest JobsOutlook survey of employers released by the Recruitment & Employment Confederation. Engineering/technical,...

UK – Analysis highlights concerns over skills development

Underinvestment and failed policy on skills in the UK has contributed to the country lagging behind European competitors and most of the OECD in four key measures, according to a new analysis by the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development, a nonprofit professional body for HR and people development....

Global – Number of data scientist jobs jumps 57%

Data scientist job openings are rising. A survey of 280 international data scientists found a 57% increase in positions allocated. The survey was done by the Big Data Analytics and Business Intelligence Observatory run by the Politecnico di Milano School of Management in Italy.

“As big data analytics...

Europe – German-speakers in demand (The Local)

Demand for German-speaking candidates is sky high, wrote British expat Matt Mills in The Local. “Working for a job board which specializes in multilingual candidates, I experience firsthand the struggle that companies have in acquiring German speaking candidates, and the sky-high demand for the language...