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January 5th, 2018 · RecruitSoSimple
In the final days of December 2017, a report from the Recruitment and Employment Confederation (REC) reveals that fewer UK employers are planning to take on more staff next year. In fact, employers in London are expecting to reduce jobs. Two thirds of companies said that Britain will be a less attractive place to do […]
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December 26th, 2017 · RecruitSoSimple
Brexit, budget and disruptive technology – 2017 has been a turbulent year for recruitment. Growth revision has been lowered from 2% to 1.5% with a continuing decline until 2020, leading to stagnation in the job market and fierce competition for candidates in the diminishing pool of suitably qualified mid to senior personnel in many industries, […]
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December 12th, 2017 · RecruitSoSimple
Recruitment experiences different pinch points throughout the year and at the end of the summer but before Christmas there tends to be a rush of candidates seeking new jobs before the new year. The good news is that a recent survey revealed that there has been an 11% increase in advertised vacancies over this period […]
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November 20th, 2017 · RecruitSoSimple
It’s been an unusual month for the recruitment industry which has – on several fronts – faced a hard reality check. One development will soon be adding extra pressure to the work of recruitment agencies dealing with construction and HR departments in the building and construction industries. A campaign to convince up to 1500 overseas […]
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November 10th, 2017 · RecruitSoSimple
Accountancy Age suggests that the 2008 financial crisis has caused a massive but almost undetectable change in the recruitment industry. According to a recent article, it says ‘recruiters are failing to speak to candidates directly’ which means that candidates don’t benefit from conversations with a recruitment consultant and therefore aren’t given the advice on career […]
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October 31st, 2017 · RecruitSoSimple
The decline in job applications in the past year has been a clear response to uncertainty over Brexit and a clear desire to hold onto employment. For 2018 this suggests that successful recruitment consultancies will need to be: Technologically adept – for example online recruitment software will need to make better use of real-time activity. […]
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October 16th, 2017 · RecruitSoSimple
Like many software providers we’re keen to discover what causes people to use our software – but we’re equally fascinated by what stops them! While we have a substantial amount of information on the first group, it’s difficult to find out about the second, but by aggregating information from a number of high profile cases […]
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October 4th, 2017 · RecruitSoSimple
Adecco, the world’s largest staffing organisation, has identified a number of ‘megatrends’ influencing the nature of recruitment in recent years. None of them will surprise the well-informed recruitment consultant or HR manager, but when aggregated together they reveal a substantial change in the nature of recruitment. The mega-trends are: Businesses favouring flexible workforces in an […]
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September 15th, 2017 · RecruitSoSimple
Recruiters to benefit from better pay In the last couple of months we’ve seen some game-changing initiatives in the recruitment industry – the first of which will definitely please the recruitment consultants: pay increases! The latest Glassdoor pay report shows that recruiters are likely to benefit from substantial pay rises in the next 12 months […]
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August 29th, 2017 · RecruitSoSimple
At Recruit So Simple, we’re completely confident that cloud recruitment software is one of the greatest benefits to the recruitment industry since the rolodex was invented – and we don’t think you’d find many people arguing to the contrary! However, a much less well explored question is just how online recruitment software can benefit all […]
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