{"id":859,"date":"2018-12-14T10:54:18","date_gmt":"2018-12-14T10:54:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/recruitsosimple.com\/blog\/?p=859"},"modified":"2018-12-14T10:54:18","modified_gmt":"2018-12-14T10:54:18","slug":"christmas-new-year-and-new-horizons-for-recruitment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/recruitsosimple.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/christmas-new-year-and-new-horizons-for-recruitment\/","title":{"rendered":"Christmas, New Year and new horizons for recruitment"},"content":{"rendered":"

This year\u2019s daft December story goes to the recruitment agency Logical Resources which has decided to publicise its 2018 Christmas party by hiring a PR agency to puff it. And it\u2019s worth puffing, as the company\u2019s UK and Australia teams re going to be flown to Phuket for an all-expenses paid seven night \u2018blow out\u2019. Wow.<\/p>\n

Now there\u2019s no way that even the best recruiting software could help a company make decisions about this kind of activity – but perhaps it would be better if it could. While meeting targets should definitely be rewarded, we\u2019re wondering if recruitment is starting to look like the city traders of 2000 – and we all know how that ended!<\/p>\n

There\u2019s another reason that big Christmas and New Year parties aren\u2019t always a great idea in the recruitment sector and that\u2019s because the New Year is when many candidates start to look around. Recruitment database software<\/a> proves this to be true, and the agency whose online recruitment software isn\u2019t able to capture the details of those who\u2019ve decided that 2019 is the year they change job, is recruitment management software that isn\u2019t paying its way. But it\u2019s not just a software problem – if consultants are still hungover, or sharing memories of their \u2018epic\u2019 celebrations, they will definitely miss out on this valuable New Year churn.<\/p>\n

New recruitment opportunities\u2026<\/h2>\n

A Scottish Oil and Gas Survey has discovered that a third of firms in the UK are committed to increasing their workforce in 2019, and that a fifth of firms have already increased their UK-based team by more than 10%. However, this opportunity is also seen as a \u2018looming skills shortage\u2019 and SAAS recruitment agencies are able to chart the demand for IT, hydraulic and fluid technology specialists along with the decline in the number of available candidates with those backgrounds – it\u2019s a sellers\u2019 market for sure. The lack of engineers is particularly acute and the best recruitment CRM is now being used to find transferable skills sets to produce candidates who have analogous skills which can be translated into this very turbulent sector.<\/p>\n

After two years of no growth in 2015\/16 the Scottish oil and gas industry was making a slow recovery in 2017\/18 but appears to be sliding downwards again – but because oil and gas values rose by a whopping 18.2% in the last 12 months, the industry is in the strange position of producing less and earning more, and is now facing the need to make recruitment decisions based on uncertainty about Brexit and its role in creating regional fuel security.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This year\u2019s daft December story goes to the recruitment agency Logical Resources which has decided to publicise its 2018 Christmas party by hiring a PR agency to puff it. And it\u2019s worth puffing, as the company\u2019s UK and Australia teams re going to be flown to Phuket for an all-expenses paid seven night \u2018blow out\u2019. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-industry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/recruitsosimple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/recruitsosimple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/recruitsosimple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recruitsosimple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recruitsosimple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=859"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/recruitsosimple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/859\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":860,"href":"https:\/\/recruitsosimple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/859\/revisions\/860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/recruitsosimple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recruitsosimple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recruitsosimple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}