Recruitment News
Labour market recovers as lockdown restrictions ease
New research has shown that, over the month of March, hiring activity has substantially improved. The labour market showing signs of recovery is thought to be a result of lockdown restrictions easing, seeing many sectors re-open. The KPMG and REC 'UK Report on Jobs'...
HR job vacancies fell by over a third in 2020
New research has found that professional vacancies for HR professionals declined by almost two-fifths year-on-year in 2020. Data collected by the Association of Professional Staffing Companies, the trade association for the recruitment sector, found that HR job...
Employer hiring confidence rises throughout 2021
According to the REC, businesses' confidence in their ability to hire new staff has risen in the three months leading up to February - the last month on record. New research by the Recruitment and Employment Confederation (REC) has shown that employer confidence in...
Youth unemployment crisis set to cost UK almost £7 billion next year
A new report analyses the impact that COVID-19 has had on youth unemployment and how this is likely to incur significant economic and fiscal costs for the UK economy. A joint report by the Learning and Work Institute and The Prince's Trust finds that it will be young...
30 per cent of UK professionals have changed jobs over past year
Despite COVID-19 restrictions and the ensuing dip in the labour market and hiring rates, three in 10 UK professionals have changed jobs over the past year. According to new data by TopCV, almost a third (30 per cent) of professionals in the UK have switched jobs...
Under 25s hit hardest by redundancies throughout pandemic
During the pandemic, 63 per cent of the staff struck off from payrolls were aged under 25, with the total number of employees removed from payroll exceeding half a million people. According to new data from the Office for National Statistics (ONS), there has been a...
UK hiring rate sees growth throughout 2021
The rise in hiring rates has been attributed to the vaccine roll-out with over 27 million UK adults having received their first dose. According to new data from professional networking site LinkedIn, the hiring rate in the UK has seen an increase in January -...
Over half of job adverts displaying unconscious bias towards men
A new analysis of 5,000 job adverts indicates a prevalent problem with over half displaying "gendered wording" targeted towards male applicants. Research by Michael Page, a specialist recruitment company, reveals a systematic bias found within job adverts. Over half...
Permanent vacancies decline as lockdown continues
New research shows how the continuation of lockdown restrictions is affecting recruitment decisions - with permanent vacancies on the decline and temporary roles seeing their slowest level of growth. Research by KPMG and REC which analysed hiring decisions in February...
Planned job cuts drops to lowest level since beginning of pandemic
Research reveals that the number of companies planning to cut jobs has fallen to the lowest level since the beginning of the pandemic. According to a Freedom of Information request made by the BBC, only 292 employers in the UK expressed plans to cut jobs in the first...
Recruitment Analysis
Felix Obadaki: A recruitment strategy to identify “right fit” candidates
At the peak of the global financial crisis impact on the UK, unemployment rate was 12.2 per 1,000 employees. As of September-November 2020, the UK unemployment rate reached a record high of 14.2 per 1,000 employees. The above inevitably and sadly means there are lots...
David Banaghan: ‘Social recruiting’ – Harnessing social media to boost candidate pools
‘Social recruiting’, the practice of utilising social media to attract key candidates, is rapidly increasing in both popularity and value. As younger candidates with high levels of digital fluency begin to dominate the workforce, bolstering your corporate social media...
Nicola Sullivan: Shining a light on virtual onboarding to better connect with graduate recruits
If there’s one indelible mark that coronavirus is leaving on the world of work, it’s this: uncertainty. Conservative estimates suggest that the UK economy will shrink by 10 per cent by the end of the year, with a sharp rise in unemployment expected once the...
Arran Heal: Can HR ever deal with unconscious bias?
More tribunal cases are turning on the role of unconscious bias. The King’s College NHS Foundation Trust last year (2019) paid out £1 million to an Afro-Caribbean member of staff who’d been “assumed” to be the aggressor in an incident with a visitor to the site. The...
Sophie Milliken: What value do you feel that psychometrics adds to the recruitment/selection process?
Hands up if you love psychometrics. Anyone, no, didn’t think so. My own relationship with them is love/hate. I understand that with volume recruitment, particularly of graduates, multiple stages are needed to reduce the number of applicants to equal the required...
Ronni Zehavi: The ‘quitting economy’ – how HR can ensure businesses stay competitive in a new environment
Today’s workforce is very different to what it was a decade ago. The number of people voluntarily leaving their jobs is on the rise, giving HR professionals a new challenge when it comes to talent retention: navigating the ‘quitting economy’. The current shorter...
Richard Justenhoven: The four main challenges to overcome when using AI in assessment
The goal of any recruitment process is to identify the right person for the job. The closer you match the individual to the requirements of the role, the more effective that person will be. You certainly don’t need Artificial Intelligence (AI) to achieve this, but AI...
Alan Bourne: Are people analytics and psychometrics testing essential to recruitment?
Looking at the evolution of recruitment methods over the past 100 years or so, we can see that the end goal hasn’t changed. Our over-arching objective in any recruitment process is to find the best people for the job in the most time-efficient and cost-effective way...
Heidi Thompson: Tackling the talent shortage
The ‘war on talent’ continues to be an on-going problem across all sectors. Nobody is immune to the shortages in talent that businesses are facing. The battle shouldn’t be shied away from though, as there are plenty of ways to tackle the talent gap. Crunching the...
Mathias Linnemann: Measuring what matters in recruitment
Management consultant Peter Drucker famously said “You can't manage what you don't measure.” This article explores the role of measurement, people analytics and psychometrics in the recruitment process, exploring how this can have a positive impact on employment and...
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