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What’s the one thing that you didn’t think about when you set up your recruitment business? Quite possibly it was website integration. Any website for recruitment needs to achieve a number of things: visibility, usability, a strong brand profile, reflecting client culture etc. But integration with Microsoft might not have featured on your list. Here’s […]

The new Labour government has made a number of pledges that will change the shape of recruitment in the UK. Recruitment software UK based will need to take account of legislative changes, such as the ‘day one’ statutory sick pay that will feature in the Employment Rights Bill and there are also going to be […]

Across the recruitment industry, the best recruitment CRM gives recruiters, and agencies, the chance to focus on human relationships from recruiting new clients through to running recruitment campaigns to assisting with onboarding candidates. This improves partnerships, helps with client acquisition and retention, and can even boost client spending through greater collaboration and trust.

AI is a hot topic – and recent research shows that recruiters across the globe think it will be the biggest force in recruitment in the near future. 45% of those surveyed believe that increased AI and automation will change the nature of recruitment. And 62% are feeling positive about how AI will impact the […]

There’s a range of costs attributed to recruiting staff, from £3,000 to £6,000, with a calculation that the overall cost of taking on a member of staff paid £31,722 (the average UK salary) is actually £62,892.78 in the first year. It’s logical for any employer to look for ways to cut the cost of recruitment. […]

Recruitment agencies and HR departments recognise that recruitment is becoming more difficult. There’s a global shortage of candidates, resulting from an ageing society, the overproduction of university graduates leaving talent gaps in many areas and an increase in dissatisfaction and unhappiness in the workplace. Recruiting software reveals that certain types of vacancy, e.g. driving and […]

In the UK the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) has opened a consultation on something called ‘tailored support’ – an approach to making the Personal Independence Payment (PIP) system work better. You might be asking yourself what this has to do with recruitment? Welfare is inextricably tied to the labour market in two ways: […]

In a recent global survey, three quarters of employers reported difficulties filling vacancies. This is still better than in 2023, when 77% of employers declared recruitment challenges. Recruitment management software reveals a number of reasons for such problems – as an example, while 65% of employers say they’re offering more work flexibility, it comes on […]

For any business, there comes a point when the decision has to be made about outsourcing recruitment – and in today’s more volatile times, the decision sometimes has to be made and remade as circumstances change. So what’s the point of using a recruitment consultancy and how does an organisation know when the time is […]

As the American manufacturing sector reports a substantial worker shortage, the UK is experiencing a completely different phenomenon. Online recruitment software aggregates and national statistics both reveal that while America increased manufacturing vacancies by 23,000 in January 2024 (and already had over 600,000 vacant positions in December 2023) in the UK vacancy rates in manufacturing […]