Recruitment

New and updated

• Date:

  13 May 2025

  Type:

  Podcasts and webinars

  Podcast: Immigration law changes 2025 - what HR needs to know

  Ferzana Ahmed and Mith Ragukaran, solicitors at law firm Fragomen, join Laura Merrylees, senior legal editor at Brightmine, to talk through the latest immigration developments and issues affecting HR professionals, including what's on the horizon.

• Type:

  Economic data

  Recruitment

  Updated to include data for April 2025 on the availability and recruitment of permanent and temporary staff from the KPMG and REC UK Report on Jobs compiled by S&P Global in association with the Recruitment & Employment Confederation (REC). 

• Type:

  Leading practice guides

  Assessment centres: Why use an assessment centre?

  Enhanced by creating six separate guides on assessment centres, to help you find the guidance you need. This initial guide explores what an assessment centre involves, when it is appropriate to use one and the business benefits of doing so. 

• Type:

  Leading practice guides

  Assessment centres: Choosing selection exercises

  Leading practice guidance discussing the variety of selection exercises available and how to decide which ones to use at an assessment centre.

• Type:

  Leading practice guides

  Assessment centres: Key roles in developing and operating assessment centres

  Leading practice guidance discussing the key roles involved in designing and hosting assessment centres, as well as the training organisations will need to provide to develop the internal expertise to run assessment centres.

• Type:

  Leading practice guides

  Assessment centres: Making a selection decision

  Leading practice guidance discussing the process of making a final selection decision following the completion of an assessment centre.

• Type:

  Leading practice guides

  Assessment centres: Providing feedback to candidates

  Leading practice guidance discussing how to provide meaningful feedback to candidates who have completed an assessment centre.

• Type:

  Leading practice guides

  Assessment centres: Evaluation

  Leading practice guidance discussing how organisations can evaluate whether assessment centres are achieving the desired outcomes.

• Type:

  How to

  How to apply for a sponsor licence

  Updated to reflect that restrictions on recouping sponsorship costs extend to other routes, including global business mobility, from 9 April 2025. 

• Type:

  Letters and forms

  Recommended documentation for sponsored migrants checklist

  Updated to refer to biometric immigration documents (previously biometric residence permits).