ZRG buys UK-based Ignata Finance Group

ZRG, an US executive search firm, acquired Ignata Finance Group, a UK-based executive search and finance recruitment business.

“Partnering with Ignata will enable our European growth strategy both in private equity but across our shared global customers, especially in the UK,” ZRG CEO Larry Hartmann...

Deel acquires PaySpace, boosting global payroll capabilities

Deel Inc., a global employer-of-record platform headquartered in the US, acquired PaySpace, a payroll and human resource services provider operating in Europe, Latin America, the Middle East and Africa.

With the acquisition, Deel said it is the first global payroll and employer-of-record provider with...

ADvTech says schools and tertiary divisions report growth

South Africa-based recruitment firm AdvTech (ADH: SJ) published a trading statement for the year ended 31 December 2023.

“We are pleased with enrolments for 2024 for both the schools and tertiary divisions that are tracking in line with targets and continuing their trend of good growth,” the company...

Stevenson Search Partners secures funding to expand

Stevenson Search Partners, a global life sciences executive search firm, with offices in the UK and US, announced that it received a significant long-term investment from SixSibs Capital, a US-based family-owned private investment company, to advance its expansion into a total talent solution company...

Randstad UK& I joins Tent UK to help connect refugees to jobs

Randstad UK & Ireland announced that it has joined Tent UK, a new coalition of over 60 major companies that is committed to helping refugees secure employment in the UK.

Randstad has been a longstanding member of the Tent Partnership for Refugees, a global network of companies committed to helping...

Court rules Spanish temporary worker was unfairly dismissed

A judge in Seville, Spain has declared a temporary worker who was providing long-standing services as an orderly in a secondary education institute has ruled that her dismissal was unfair, reports El Mundo. The paper noted that this is the first ruling of its kind known in the Andalusia community in...

‘Lax oversight’ prompts suspected abuse of UK visa sponsor system

The UK Home Office has recently granted hundreds of newly established care providers licences to sponsor workers from abroad, despite having no track record of providing services in the UK, reports The Guardian and the Observer. Sponsor licences have been granted to newly formed firms that have never...

Staffing firms with AI strategy saw more growth in 2023

Staffing firms that adopted an AI strategy were the most likely to report revenue growth in 2023 (57%), followed by those who are experimenting with generative AI (51%), according to a new global report by Bullhorn.

The report noted that the figure is an indication of the firms’ overall willingness...

Staffing veteran joins cast of Celebrity Big Brother

Gary Goldsmith, co-founder of The Recruitment Directors Lunch Club, a membership club for staffing executives has joined contestants in the latest series of the UK’s Celebrity Big Brother airing on ITV1 and ITVX.

Goldsmith acts as mentor/advisor to numerous staffing firms and his participation in the...

Luxembourg is only OECD country with negative gender pay gap

Luxembourg is a leader across the OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development) countries on the gender pay gap, with a negative gap of -0.2% between 2021 and 2022, meaning average earnings are higher for women than men, according to the latest Women in Work 2024 report by PwC.

Luxembourg’s...