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Contracts & Deals
Major Recruitment Multi-sector recruiter Major Recruitment has signed a “significant” technology investment with The Access Group, according to an Access statement. The Huddersfield-based recruitment company is implementing a comprehensive suite of recruitment technology, including Access Recruitment CRM, Access Screening and Access Pay and Bill that will give them a flexible, browser-based solution underpinning their business operations from “candidate to cash”, the statement said. Nine Twenty Pelion, an Internet of Things (IoT) management firm, has turned to Scott ish technology recruitment firm Nine Twenty to fill six of its vacancies. These include engineering, DevOps and technical sales roles. Nine Twenty has already placed two soft ware engineers, a programme manager and a people business partner for the technology firm. Nine Twenty, which has a longstanding relationship with Pelion that stretches back to 2014, has sourced eight people for the business since the end of 2020.
Liquid Friday Umbrella company Liquid Friday has entered into an agreement with job platf orm Stride (formerly known as JobLab). It will develop the Stride platf orm and evolve it to become a soft ware solution to allow recruitment agencies to have a digital interface between themselves and their clients through technology automation and AI, so they and their consultants can work more efficiently.
Jepson Holt Legal search firm Jepson Holt has acquired legal recruiter Six Degrees Legal. Greg Williamson, managing director at Six Degrees Legal, will join Jepson Holt as director of the business.
Beamery Talent operating system Beamery has announced $138m (£99.5m) in Series C funding led by The Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan Board (Ontario Teachers’), through its Teachers’ Innovation Platf orm (TIP). Accenture Ventures also participated in this round, alongside existing investors EQT Ventures, Index Ventures, M12 and Workday Ventures.
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Airswift /Competentia
Global workforce solutions giants, Airswift and Competentia, have merged into one of the world’s foremost recruitment providers.
Serving the energy, process, infrastructure, mining and technology industries, the combined entity will retain the Airswift name, with Airswift CEO Janett e Mark leading the merged organisation. Jayden Wallis, CEO of the Competentia Group, joins the executive team as chief marketing officer and senior vice president of ASPAC. Airswift ’s current CFO, Kyle McClure, retains his position in the merged organisation, a company statement said.
Airswift itself was created in January 2016 by the merger of the then-Air Energi and Swift Worldwide Resources. The merged company has corporate hubs in Houston, Manchester and Singapore, and 60 offices worldwide. Competentia, established in 1998 in Norway, has local teams in North America, Europe, Africa, the Middle East and Australia. Odro BGF, a capital investor in UK and Ireland, has completed a £5.2m investment in Odro, a Scott ish-headquartered technology business that provides video interviewing and engagement soft ware to the recruitment industry. Odro provides its 700-plus client base with a premium video recruitment product that helps them to streamline their processes and drive profitability.
Recruitment Entrepreneur Recruitment investment firm Recruitment Entrepreneur, led by businessman James Caan CBE, has announced a partnership with King Recruit, a recruitment firm in Exeter, which works with SME businesses in the South-West. Managing director Helen Plumridge launched King Recruit in 2015, and in January expanded the company with the addition of King Executive. In partnership with Recruitment Entrepreneur, she now plans to develop the group even further, with the addition of King Tech, King Sales, King Finance and King Digital over the next 12 months.
Talent Works Aptean, a US-based global provider of missioncritical enterprise soft ware solutions, is working with flexible recruitment process outsourcing provider Talent Works to review and localise its employer brand to recruit over 150 roles. The roles span 17 departments and eight markets including the US and the UK, with a key focus on upscaling its offering in Madurai and Bangalore, India. Aptean’s industry-specific ERP, supply chain and compliance solutions are used in over 80 countries.
