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Gareth Tomkins' End of Year Review 2025

I’m sure I speak for many companies and clients alike when I say I am glad to see the back of 2025 and am now looking forward to hopefully better times ahead in 2026. Trading conditions have proven to be extremely challenging this year, which appear…

Linear Recruitment's Volunteering day at Newcastle Charity The People's Kitchen

A team from our Newcastle office spent the day volunteering at The People's Kitchen in October.The People's Kitchen support homeless and vulnerable people and help fight hunger and loneliness for locals in need, and we were thrilled to be able to …

Is AI the future of Recruitment?

UK Recruitment Trends 2025: How AI is Solving Critical Skills Shortages

Sheffield S6 Foodbank Volunteering

Thursday 14th August saw a team from Linear complete their first volunteering day at Sheffield S6 Foodbank. They provide three days’ nutritionally balanced emergency food and support to local…

Strata Charity Football Tournament

On Friday Team Linear took part in a charity football tournament organised by Strata to raise money for Roundabout Ltd, a youth homeless charity on South Yorkshire providing support, shelter & life skills to young people aged 16-25.

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Gareth Tomkins Summer 2025 Update

Gareth Tomkins's 6 month Review: July 2025 

Although the first half of the year has again been challenging, I am pleased to say we have had a better start to the year than we did in 2024. The year has been sluggish, but as we move into the summer m…

Giving Back: Linear's Volunteering Days

At Linear we understand the importance of social responsibility and the role that we can play in adding social value, and we're looking at ways that we can give back - to our employees, our candidates and clients and our community.

​One of the aspe…

Compliance & Accreditations

Linear prides itself on our compliance process and operates to the highest of standards possible. Over the past two decades we have passed numerous external audits and have a 100% pass rate. We hold all necessary compliance to operate in every one o…

Working with a Recruitment Agency: How it can save your Business time and money

What is happening with the UK labour market? What trends are we seeing?

We’ve seen several changes in the UK economy and labour marketplace over the last couple of years; the effects of Brexit, changes in Government leadership, National Minimum Wa…

Annual Awards Celebration Weekend

This weekend saw our annual celebration of our "Captain's Club", recognising some of the 2024 achievements and Awards across Linear.

This year we went off to Dublin and what a blast it was. 

Unfortunately not everyone who won an award could make i…

Protecting job seekers from scams

Scams are elaborate schemes used for the purposes of getting hold of individuals' money. Linear Recruitment is aware of the rise in hiring scams. Scammers have become highl…

An Interview with Geoff Taylor

Geoff Taylor is Linear Recruitment's longest-serving employee, having been with the company for twenty years. In that time his role has continued to develop, and he now holds the fort as Operations Director for the North, along with Director for Lin…