Recruitment and Labour – what to expect

July 25th, 2024 | Industry News

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 challenges around zero hours contracts that related to what is classed as ‘exploitative’ and which may impact a number of recruiting software features especially automated features that may now need to be recalibrated.

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Making the most of your recruitment CRM

July 12th, 2024 | Industry News

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.

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AI and recruitment

June 21st, 2024 | Industry News

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 industries for three main reasons – they believe AI will:

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Recruitment costs and website design

June 3rd, 2024 | Industry News

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. So do you really need a website for recruitment?

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Training, talent and technology

May 30th, 2024 | Industry News

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 teaching, nursing and care – are hard to fill.

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Recruitment and Government – a match made in heaven?

May 14th, 2024 | Industry News

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: first it’s the taxpayers who fund benefits and second, there has always been a requirement for people claiming benefits to either demonstrate their inability to work or demonstrate their willingness to do so.  In the first case, growth is necessary if the UK is to meet the 110% increase in demand for PIP and in the second case, enhanced employment opportunities will help people receiving benefits to find ways back into work. And the government is keen to create new public-private partnerships to help individuals with employment.

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Ups and downs in the employment market

April 18th, 2024 | Industry News

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 the back of a series of ‘return to office’ initiatives that have caused difficulties in the workplace and led to some companies finding it harder to recruit. Only 30% of firms worldwide are considering wage increases, while 28% are trying to find new talent pools, using recruitment website design, social media and recruitment agency software to drive innovation and find candidates. Given the gap between cost of living and wage rises, there are several paradoxes in this approach to recruitment that might be inhibiting initiatives.

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Websites, candidate contacts and AI – a roundup of key issues in recruitment

April 5th, 2024 | Company News

Protecting candidates from recruitment website fraud

The world of recruitment is as prone to risk and fraud as any other, but recruitment website design is the latest area in which recruitment agencies are finding themselves on the back foot. Fraudsters are using recruitment platforms, and even designing their own websites, to create online vacancies to obtain personal information from candidates. While the best recruitment websites are hard to fake, there’s no doubt that the scammers are skilled in creating fake sites. Action Fraud is reporting a rise in recruitment scams, with people being exploited either through false adverts on reputable job websites or through follow up messages sent on Whatsapp to persuade people to hand over personal details such as passport information and bank details. While the Recruitment and Employment Confederation has reiterated that its members would never ask candidates for payment to obtain work, it’s up to recruiters to ensure that their website for recruitment is secure and contains clear information about what they will, and won’t ask candidates in their search for employment.

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Using a recruiter – why and when?

March 1st, 2024 | Industry News

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 right to make the move?

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Difficult to fill vacancies in 2024

February 19th, 2024 | Industry News

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 were down 30% over the 12 months from December 2022 to December 2023. This divergence in experience is partly economic; there is a difference in the way that older workers retire and young people have to choose between college and work in the two countries and also partly around recruitment itself. In the UK the best recruitment CRM is being used to help manufacturers and building companies, transfer, relocate or recruit staff to local need, this isn’t as possible in the USA where state boundaries can make it difficult for all but the very biggest corporations to relocate staff across state lines.

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