Social care recruiters ‘should learn from commercial sector’
Recruiters in the social care field must borrow attraction strategies from the commercial sector to avoid further skills shortages. That’s according to social work and healthcare recruitment consultancy Medicare First, which says a number of areas of social care are suffering from intense skills shortages at managerial level with very few available specialists on the […]
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Read More →What are the ideal attributes of the modern recruiter?
The role of the recruiter is constantly evolving, as market conditions, societal trends and the tools available to those working in the industry change. The industry is certainly a far cry from the days when recruiters would work from a little black book of contacts, and spend most of their days on the phone trying […]
Read More →Temporary workers and the evolution of recruitment
There was something very telling in the most recent round of figures from the Recruitment and Employment Confederation. They highlighted a trend that so-called futurologists have been telling us would happen for years – that a more volatile economy would require a more agile and flexible workforce, that would increasingly be made up of freelancers […]
Read More →Compliancy, compliancy, compliancy
Julia Kermode outlines what agencies should consider when choosing an umbrella company. Non-compliant umbrella employers have been making the headlines lately and for all the wrong reasons. In September 2014, in his party conference speech, Ed Miliband pledged a crackdown on “umbrella” schemes used by construction firms to employ temporary workers. In his Autumn Statement, […]
Read More →92% of employers say temps earn more or the same as permanent workers
More than a third of employers (36%) say temporary workers earn more than they would on a permanent contract at their company, while 56% say temps earn the same, according to the latest JobsOutlook survey by the Recruitment and Employment Confederation (REC). This month’s report includes, for the first time, a comparison of agency pay […]
Read More →Record number of recruitment agencies launched in 2014
More recruitment agencies were launched last year than at any other point since 1990, according to figures obtained by contract finance provider Sonovate. According to the data, taken from Companies House statistics, 4,083 new agencies were launched in the UK in 2014, an increase of 7% compared to the previous year. This is almost double […]
Read More →LPC recommends 3% rise in minimum wage
The Low Pay Commission (LPC) has recommended to the Government that the adult rate of the National Minimum Wage should rise from £6.50 to £6.70 from October 2015. With inflation now forecast at 0.5%, this recommended rise of 3% would, if accepted by the Government, be the largest real-terms increase in the NMW since 2007, […]
Read More →UK achieves improved Women in Work Index position
The UK has made significant progress increasing female labour participation, according to the latest edition of PwC’s annual Women in Work Index. The UK has risen to 14th position out of 27 Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) countries, its highest position on the index since 2000 and up four places from last year. […]
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