Recruitment News
NHS sees increase in job applications
The number of healthcare job applications to the NHS have gone up since September. The end to the health service’s dismal two years for hiring has coincided with a 4 percent dip in the number of new jobs listed since September. It has narrowed what was becoming a...
HR industry “wasting” £9bn on recruitment
HR teams are being accused of using outdated and ineffective methods to hire employees, while wasting money on recruitment costs. A study by the acquisition platform TalentTrack, says firms are in a "hiring frenzy" since the end of the pandemic, the Great Resignation,...
Post-furlough redundancies below pre-pandemic
Employers have made fewer redundancies than expected since the end of the furlough scheme, according to research by the CIPD. This season’s Labour Market Outlook says only 10 percent of employers expect to make redundancies, which is down from 13 percent last...
Competition for graduate jobs reaches record high
As applications for graduate jobs increased while recruitment has remained lagging behind due to the pandemic, new research finds that competition for these roles have reached a record high. A new report released by the Institute of Student Employers has revealed...
Job adverts continue to rise in the run-up to Christmas
Close to a quarter of a million job adverts were posted in the first week of November, suggesting companies are ramping up hiring in the run-up to the festive period. According to new research by the Recruitment and Employment Confederation (REC), 221,000 new job...
Replacing unvaccinated staff could cost NHS £270 million
As mandatory vaccinations have now been extended to all frontline health and social care staff, a new impact statement analyses the potential drawbacks and positives of this move. According to a new impact statement released by the Department of Health and Social...
CSR roles jump by three-quarters as firms tackle climate change
The number of corporate social responsibility-related job roles advertised this year has increased by 74 per cent since last year, indicating businesses are taking steps to tackle important issues. According to a new report released by global recruiter Robert...
Flexible workers missing out on jobs and high pay
A new report shows that UK employers still have a long way to go in order to meet the demand for flexible working - with three in four employers failing to offer any kind of flexible working options. New research released by Timewise, a flexible working consultancy,...
Starting salaries reach record level amid rise in hiring
A new report signalled a further marked rise in hiring activity at the start of the final quarter of the year, leading to an inflation of starting pay. New research carried out by the REC and KPMG reveals vacancy growth remains robust but both permanent staff...
Over two in three workers are ready to move jobs
New research shows the surge in employees looking to find a new job is showing no signs of stopping with two in three looking to move jobs within the next couple of months. According to new research by Randstad UK, almost seven in every 10 employees (69 per cent) say...
Recruitment Analysis
Charles Courquin: The War for Talent – How a focus on recruitment can support an efficient HR strategy
The balance of power in the UK job market has shifted significantly over recent months. According to Office for National Statistics (ONS), the number of job vacancies in July to September 2021 was a record high of 1,102,000 - an increase of 318,000 from its...
Mike Baker: Navigating the Hospitality Staffing Crisis
No industry has had a tougher time throughout the pandemic than hospitality. After 18 months of uncertainty, with three UK lockdowns closing the doors of restaurants, bars and hotels to customers, and many staff members being put on furlough for months on end, the...
Marcus Thornley: How to make sure recruits feel welcome when onboarding remotely
The world has changed over the past twelve months. Walks suddenly became the highlight of our social calendars, “you’re on mute” was probably the most uttered phrase globally and masks are now a common sight. The world of work has also been reconstructed to reflect...
Nathan Peart: Trying for truer colours: how authenticity will retain talent post-Covid
Prior to the Covid-19 pandemic, there had been a movement pushing for people to bring their authentic selves to work. Creating and fostering a culture of openness was seen as a way to create dynamic and thoughtful teams that produced optimal results in a new era of...
Ali Hackett: Nurturing young talent through your virtual recruitment
In a job market that has become so much more fragile over the past year, it is those just starting out, with little or no experience to fall back on, that have really borne the brunt of the altered landscape. According to the Pew Research Center, 50 per cent of 18-to...
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...
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