Original article written and published by Silicon Canals. Our Regional Director (Europe), Nick Mortimer recently discussed with Silicon Canals what have been the biggest challenges tech companies have faced over the past couple of years. “Whilst tech has taken a massive hit in the form of layoffs, share price dips, less VC investment and some…
I think we can all agree; times are changing with regard to how we attract & retain talent regardless of the industry you work within. Coming off the back of a global pandemic coupled with global economic instability we’re seeing rapid changes being adopted by organisations of all sizes in their approach to talent acquisition,…
The ‘great resignation’ of last November brought a record number of vacancies to the UK. In November 2021, the Office for National Statistics reported that the number of job vacancies in the UK had reached a new record of 1,172,000. The ‘great resignation’, otherwise known as ‘the big quit’, saw one in four workers in…
Original article written and published by Silicon Canals Our Regional Director (Europe), Nick Mortimer recently discussed with Silicon Canals how Troi is flipping the script on traditional recruitment and bringing its success to Amsterdam. It is truly an accolade to be featured in Silicon Canals, Europe’s leading technology news source talking all things talent,…
Despite a slowdown in other industries, the FinTech industry is booming. For those of you who don’t already know, FinTech is a relatively new industry which covers everything from cryptocurrency investing to digital banking. According to KPMG, there are over 2,500 FinTech companies in the UK alone. The term ‘FinTech’ refers to financial technology, including…
In times of unprecedented challenges talent has a new heightened expectation of how their work compliments their life choices, and if they feel employers are not meeting those expectations they are walking away. Few industries are insulated from the upheaval caused by The Great Resignation with 73% of CEOs citing staff shortages as their main…
Hiring a new employee costs more than simply their salary. In fact, when hiring a new staff member at the average UK salary of £27,600, the true cost to you, on average, for the first year of that employment is around £62,890 with a proportion of this cost going towards your internal HR department and the…
We have recently been featured in the HR Magazine regarding what potential impact the impending 2022 recession may have on the UK job market. At the forefront of many articles recently the impending recession is just the latest in a series of challenging events that we have seen over what has been an undoubtedly challenging…
There are two main recruitment models which companies can choose from when deciding to revitalize their hiring process without using an in-house team: the recruitment agency model and the Recruitment Process Outsourcing (RPO) model. Recruitment agencies are the traditional way of outsourcing the talent search for companies who don’t have their own in-house talent team.…
How embedded recruitment can help smartly scale your business If you’ve seen the headlines about the UK’s uncertain economic climate and the encroaching ‘slowdown’, you might be second guessing your business’ scaling plan. But a ‘slowdown’ doesn’t necessarily mean your business needs to stop growing. Whilst the latest Financial Stability Report from the Bank of…