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Making the most of a multi-generational workforce
With the abolition of the default retirement age, the decline of defined benefit pension schemes and the raising of the state pension age, the UK is now starting to see predictions of an older workforce become reality, as more people accept they need to work later into life. For recruiters, this presents a number of […]
Read More →Keep your candidates happy or risk missing out on the best talent
Among all the recruitment predictions for 2015, perhaps the most reliable is that we are likely to see a return to the ‘war for talent’ – a buoyant employment market where applicants call the shots and businesses fight to attract the most talented candidates. In order to ensure your agency and its clients get a […]
Read More →How recruiters can help address the UK’s skills shortage
As the economic recovery continues, organisations are once again looking to increase headcount. Yet for many sectors this is not an easy matter, as years of underinvestment in skills, failings in the education system and an explosion in demand for particular new roles all take their toll. The engineering sector is one that has traditionally […]
Read More →How recruiters can take advantage of the growth of flexible working
There’s little doubt that the way we work is changing. Figures from the Office for National Statistics show that the proportion of people who are self-employed is higher than at any point in the past 40 years, while new legislation introduced this year opened up a right to request flexible working for all employees. It’s […]
Read More →Data security: don’t keep your head in the cloud
Anyone who has previously heralded the ‘cloud’ as the great IT advancement of our time must surely be wondering where it’s all gone wrong. For it now seems that not a month goes by without yet more cloud-related ‘security breach’ stories; in particular, Apple’s much-publicised iCloud hack (where X-rated images of celebrities were leaked online); […]
Read More →Attracting candidates when a client’s image is tarnished
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos once said that your brand is what people say about you when you are not in the room. When it comes to recruiting the best talent, agencies are well aware of the negative opinions candidates can express about clients’ brands during the search process. Bad publicity following a corporate PR disaster […]
Read More →Recruiting for recruitment: how agencies attract the best talent into the industry
“There’s no other way of saying it – agencies face a big problem,” says Jonathan Graham, founder of Leeds-based IT specialist recruitment firm Inward Revenue. “Ever since tuition fees, expectations of what a university education will give back to people have escalated; graduates have much higher aims. They’re thinking of banking, finance, accountancy, certainly not […]
Read More →Passive candidates: how recruiters actively look for them
In just about any other walk of life, those described as being ‘passive’ would be people most companies wouldn’t waste their time and effort even attempting to engage with. Home sellers want active buyers; clubs want active members. Passives are the proverbial tyre kickers – the time wasters. Except, that is, in recruitment. Passives are […]
Read More →Recruitment industry bodies: why so many?
If there’s one thing the recruitment sector is not short of, it’s industry bodies. With some professions lucky to even have one, recruitment agencies are supported by the well established (such as the Recruitment & Employment Confederation and APSCo), and the new – including the Association of Recruitment Consultancies (ARC), and the Institute of Recruiters […]
Read More →Lands of opportunity? Recruiters’ role in emerging markets
If the Commonwealth Games has taught us anything over the last few weeks, it’s that there’s a lot more countries (and a lot more economies), than meets the eye. OK, so the island nation of Niue (population 1,600) or its Pacific neighbour, Tuvalu might not exactly be the hotbed of growth, but their place on […]
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