Feb 8, 2022 | Recruitment & Retention, The Jobs Market
WHAT ARE CURRENT SALARY EXPECTATION TRENDS? BUSINESSES SHOULD BE AS INFORMED AS POSSIBLE ABOUT THE EVOLVING STATE OF SALARY EXPECTATIONS. WITH SO MUCH ACTION IN THE JOBS MARKET IN THE LAST 12 MONTHS, HOW HAS THINKING AROUND A DESIRED SALARY CHANGED? HOW CAN HR...
Aug 19, 2020 | News, The Jobs Market
Organisations are more likely to hire temporary workers than permanent staff over the next three months, and demand for agency workers over the next year is likely to remain high. According to the Recruitment and Employment Confederation’s latest Jobs Outlook...
Aug 11, 2020 | Advertising Tips & Guides, News, The Jobs Market
As the latest UK employment overview from the ONS confirms, COVID-19 has truly set us on the path to a buyers’ market – but it is a buyers’ market with a difference. Despite the challenging climate, the skills shortage hasn’t disappeared so key professionals have...
Jul 16, 2020 | News, The Jobs Market
The number of weekly working hours in the UK has fallen by 16.7%, the largest decrease since records began in 1971 with total hours dropping to their lowest level since the early summer of 1997. Total weekly hours have fallen by 175.3 million to 877.1 million hours...
Jun 19, 2020 | News, The Jobs Market
Twenty unemployed people are chasing every vacancy in disadvantaged areas of the UK, up from around four people per vacancy before the coronavirus hit. Analysis by the Institute for Employment Studies (IES) found the number of applications per vacancy increased to...
Mar 13, 2020 | News, The Jobs Market
Given the covid-19 coronavirus has now been declared a pandemic by the World Health Organisation, chancellor Rishi Sunak’s Budget announcement yesterday was rightly focused on the how the government would support employers and workers as the UK attempts to contain the...
