Recruitment News
Business confidence turned positive for the first time since 2018
Employers have showcased increasing optimism towards the economy with business confidence turning positive for the first time since June 2018. New data from the Recruitment & Employment Confederation (REC) investigates the positive impact that the easing of...
Physical Right to Work checks delayed until September
The Home Office has announced that the return to physical Right to Work checks has been delayed until the 1st of September. Prior to the announcement of further delays of the full lifting of lockdown restrictions, the Home Office previously stated that physical Right...
Redundancy rate drops to pre-pandemic levels
Recent ONS statistics have signalled a clear recovery in the labour market with the employment rate and the number of UK employees on the payroll increasing. The jobs market is showing strong signs of recovery with many areas recovering to pre-pandemic levels....
Candidates are currently less willing to move jobs, say recruiters
According to the research, this hesitance to move jobs is thought to be rooted in a desire for job security. New research from LinkedIn finds that almost four in five recruiters (77 per cent) say candidates currently seem less committed to moving roles. In addition to...
Virtual hiring to increase following lockdown easing
The switch from in-person to virtual hiring has been a venture which most companies have taken over the last year. However, new research shows it is here to stay even after lockdown restrictions are eased. According to research by jobsite Indeed, the shift to virtual...
Hospitality staff shortages to be aided with government initiative
UKHospitality and the Department for Work & Pensions (DWP) have launched a scheme to promote jobs in hospitality, after facing significant shortages in staff. UKHospitality, the trade association for the hospitality sector, has announced it will be running...
Permanent job vacancies rise at record pace in May
In line with the easing of COVID-19 restrictions and the re-opening of certain sectors, the rate of hiring has increased over the last month. According to the latest KPMG and REC UK Report on Jobs survey, permanent vacancies rose at a record pace - at the fastest...
Domino’s seek to recruit 5,000 new workers due to staff shortages
Domino's Pizza have stated that the company are looking to recruit 5,000 new staff members after workers who filled previous vacancies return to other jobs. This comes after the company hired over 6,000 workers over the last year - most of whom had other jobs...
Umbrella company abuse hotline will protect staff, says REC
The Recruitment and Employment Confederation (REC) are calling on the HMRC to set up a dedicated hotline for workers to report bad practice by umbrella companies. This news comes after experts have called on the Government to take action on regulating the umbrella...
Government join Google to improve candidates’ digital skills
The Government have partnered with Google to provide candidates on the hunt for a job with scholarships in IT and technology. The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has announced it is now working with Google to give 9,000 jobseekers across the UK a chance to...
Recruitment Analysis
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...
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...
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