Investing in Recruitment Skills: Why Softer Attributes Matter
As a profession, recruitment has a rather unique reputation when it comes to staff training and skills development. On one hand, I would argue that there’s no other profession where ...
A Tale of Strikes, Skills and Economic Uncertainty
The first quarter of 2023 has certainly kept the recruitment market on its toes. With strike action continuing across the public sector, the chancellor’s first official budget and ...
Rebuilding the UK’s Skills
Reports of a recession in the UK at the end of 2022 have now been refuted, with the National Institute of Economic & Social Research (Niesr) confirming that we have avoided economic ...
What Does an Employed Recession Mean for Recruitment?
Concerns around the economic climate may be growing, but all signs are pointing to a relatively stable hiring market at the moment, even though we have seen a slowdown in hiring. Data ...
Contractor Pay Rises in Line with Growing Demand
It’s no secret that the UK is navigating its way through a perfect storm of economic turmoil at a national level, with a cost-of-living crisis and skills shortages that are impacting ...
Developing a Future-Proof Recruitment Market
The events of the last month have thrown a range of new hurdles at us all. While we expected the announcement of the new Prime Minister to take center stage for September, the passing ...
Demand for Contractors Surging Amidst Skills Shortages
UK labor shortages have been highly publicized this year, and it looks as though Brexit has been a key contributor to this, with a new report led by academics from Oxford university ...
The Clinical and Healthcare Sector Is Struggling — How Can the Staffing Sector Help?
The clinical and healthcare sector in the UK has been under immense strain for some time, a scenario that was pushed to breaking point during the pandemic. And it doesn’t appear that ...
UK’s Labor Market Is Reaching Breaking Point — Hiring Demand Is Unlikely to Slow Anytime Soon
Professionals across the staffing sector are feeling the pressure from the ever-growing skills shortages impacting the UK. With the latest figures from the Office for National Statistics ...
Contractors Experiencing Heightened Demand as Talent Shortages Remain Rife
The latest ONS data showed that vacancies have continued to grow at an exponential rate for 2022 so far, rising to a new record of 1,295,000 between February and April. This consistent ...
