Market moves, policy, and how agencies win with better matching.
Written by the JobVantage team.
JobVantage has been shortlisted in two categories at the British Recruitment Awards 2026: Innovation of the Year and AI in Recruitment Initiative of the Year. The winners will be named on 12 November 2026 at the Grand Connaught Rooms in Covent Garden, London.
Read the pieceThe government is rewriting discrimination law to put salary information on every UK job advert, with consultation open until October 2026. Most coverage reads it as a compliance story. For agencies it is a volume story: postings that show pay get 49% more apply starts, and the hard work moves from attracting candidates to shortlisting them.
Read the pieceIndeed has launched Sourcing Assistant, an AI tool that drops keyword search for real skills matching, and says it helps employers hire 30% faster with candidates 2.9x more likely to be hired. Its own head of product put the problem plainly: recruiters are not short on candidates, they are short on time. That is the exact bet JobVantage is built on, and the agency desk is where it pays off most.
Read the pieceKorn Ferry is buying AMS to place a professional every 90 seconds, across more than 16,000 people. The biggest recruitment deal of the year never once mentions technology, and for the UK's 30,000 recruitment agencies, that is exactly where the opportunity is.
Read the pieceAI candidate matching is more than a smarter keyword search. Here is what it actually means, how it differs from your ATS, and why it matters for agency business development.
Read the pieceAt London Tech Week on 8 June, Keir Starmer announced a new AI jobs tool for people out of work, alongside AI tutors for 450,000 children on free school meals. The government is now AI-powering job seekers from both ends. The question is what recruiters are doing on their side.
Read the pieceRecruitment has a matching problem, not a candidate shortage problem. Most agencies are still running keyword searches and gut calls. Here is what we built, and why it matters now.
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