How to recruit (and how not to) in 2024

February 2nd, 2024 | Industry News

This year is likely to be a period of retrenchment. The big tech platforms and Silicon Valley companies have been forced to restructure (a nice word for reduce) and streamlining is the buzzword right now and where tech leads, most sectors follow. 2023 was also a year of conflict, with employers trying to force people to return to the workplace, and having varying degrees of success. What does this mean for the year ahead?

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Recruitment priorities for 2024

January 11th, 2024 | Industry News

To start the year right, Recruit So Simple has decided to look at one of the key priorities for employers and recruitment agencies in the next 12 months and to choose one sector to illustrate how things could be done differently. Sustainability is something that is often seen as more of a employer concern than an agency or HR issue, but at the base level, sustainability is in large part about creating a workforce that meets current need and can adapt and change – in other words, something that everybody working in recruitment should be focusing on. Here are some of the areas where change might help employers and recruiters demonstrate sustainability and here’s how one industry – travel – might do it.

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Recruitment 2024 – what to expect

January 4th, 2024 | Industry News

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When James Cleverly announced new migration measures, the impact on recruitment was immediately evident: 300,000 migrants will not be able to travel to the UK in 2024, substantially impacting the Health and Care sectors.  In addition the earning threshold for overseas workers will leap next spring from £26,200 to £38,700, around a 50% increase. The consequences are more difficult to predict. Online recruitment software will need to adjust its parameters to reflect the changes in threshold earnings, while applicant tracking system UK based, will have to master the as-yet-unclear changes to the Graduate visa programme which are being overseen by the Migration Advisory Committee and may well have a powerful impact on STEM and Finance recruitment.

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Ways to grow your recruitment agency

December 5th, 2023 | Industry News

As we approach the end of the year, we thought it was time to get some perspective, and see what our recruitment agency partners might be reflecting on in 2023 and carrying forward into 2024.

Running a recruitment agency requires hard work, but much more too: strategy, awareness of new markets and new technology and a willingness to take risks. Here’s a round-up of top tips to help you take your agency into 2024 in the best possible shape.

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Why recruitment software? And when?

November 21st, 2023 | Industry News

More evidence that recruiting software is changing the nature of recruitment, and that recruitment itself is changing has come from two recent reports. The Manpower Group has been exploring the market for ‘green’ talent. They claim 55% of business leaders who responded expect that green business trends with make greater demands on recruitment than technology in the next five years and that this transition is expected to created up to 30 million jobs, worldwide, by 2030. This means that recruiters who ride this trend will benefit from a major source of income in the years ahead.

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Blue collar recruitment

November 6th, 2023 | Industry News

While most recruitment literature focuses on so called white collar recruitment, in the UK both agencies and HR departments are experiencing profound challenges in recruiting manual and skilled workers for most trades, with the Engineering and Hotel and Catering sectors being especially short of both permanent and temporary staff to fill vacancies

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Meeting 2023’s recruitment challenges

October 17th, 2023 | Industry News

News from Robert Walters, the specialist professional recruitment consultancy, has highlighted the difficulties facing many recruitment agencies at present.  Robert Walters has had a 13% drop in net fee income over the past quarter and has let 150 staff go in the past 12 months. The agency’s specialism in technology and financial recruitment has been hard hit by hiring freezes and the big redundancies in the tech sector. So what does this mean for recruitment as a whole?

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Recruitment priorities: partnership and proactivity

October 3rd, 2023 | Industry News

Most recruiters try to build strong relationships with their clients, but there’s a stage beyond getting on well – true partnership. Partnership begins with recruitment website design – your online presence as a recruiter is not just your digital business card but also that of your clients. Creating a website for recruitment that allows them to demonstrate their needs, nature and culture is an excellent way of partnering your clients, because it creates great transparency without you having to constantly communicate who your clients are and what they are looking for. SAAS recruitment agencies have an additional benefit in partnership, because they can work with clients worldwide, allowing good communications to take place across national barriers and time zones.

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What makes an outstanding recruitment website?

September 22nd, 2023 | Industry News

Recruitment used to be about having an office in the right location: easy to find, centrally located for both clients and candidates and in a ‘good’ area. Today, digital recruitment is similarly demanding, but requires a website that meets the needs of both candidates and clients.

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The lowdown on AI and Recruitment

September 12th, 2023 | Industry News

AI is nothing new to recruitment – at least to the recruiter. Web-based recruitment software has been calling on AI for several years, to sort through CVs and resumes but generative AI, artificial intelligence that creates (or generates) material such as text and images, is a game-changer for the recruitee too.

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