Recruitment 2.0

Today’s recruitment roundup features the top 10 recommended employers for 2017 and brings the predictions that technology will reduce banking jobs by 30% and replace teachers within 10 years.  

Another month, another new record for the UK’s jobs market. The latest data from the Office for National Statistics shows that employment now stands at 75.3%, the highest since records began in 1971.

Graduate recruitment shows no signs of abating in 2017/2018 as eight out of ten employers intend to recruit the same number or more graduates in 2018.

Recruitment is changing. Gone are the traditional methods of posting jobs and waiting for talent to apply.

Today’s recruitment roundup reveals the 6 signs your candidate will flake, the dating app moving in on LinkedIn and the news that advertised salaries are at a three year low.

Less than a quarter of senior HR professionals believe the UK is preparing its working environment for AI according to a new survey from Alexander Mann, despite most (69%) believing we will see ‘humanoids’ in the workplace by 2030. Faced with stagnating wages, falling productivity and predictions of a depleted post Brexit talent pool it is a situation that cannot be sustained.

If your hiring process is hampered by a lack lustre talent pipeline and a steady drop-off of candidates, it needs an overhaul. Pay attention to what your candidates want and stop doing these six things now to improve your talent acquisition success:-

Today’s recruitment roundup reveals how workers can enjoy a ‘hangover day’, the UK skills crisis in services companies and the news that half of all employees want to leave their jobs.

Amid predictions of a pre-Brexit ‘scramble’ for talent social media is a critical recruitment marketing tool to ensure a consistent source of engaged, qualified candidates for your vacancies.

The number of qualified applicants to your job posts is falling, your job offer to acceptance ratio has seen better days and your new hires are barely scraping their probation period. Adopt these habits of successful hiring teams and retrieve your talent acquisition strategy while there’s still time:-