Amidst many changes within the hiring landscape, caused by global effects over the past couple of years it is crucial for businesses to make tough decisions to ensure their company can withstand external pressures in years to come but also recognise the opportunity to strengthen the resilience of a workforce. The technology sector has always…
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…
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…
Many established retail brands are facing a rapid shift in consumer demand, and while it was accelerated by the Covid-19 pandemic it seems this shift is here to stay. Indeed ONS data shows that “internet sales accounted for 26.6% of all official retail sales, compared with 19.7% in February 2020.” How our spending has changed…