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E-Recruitment 2024: Trends, Challenges, and AI's Impact on Hiring

The game of talent acquisition has evolved beyond simply posting jobs online. E-recruitment, powered by a suite of AI-driven advancements, is transforming the entire process, streamlining it from a...

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Marketing Job Titles: What They Mean and What You Need to Know In 2024

Navigating the Marketing Job Jungle: A Recruitment Consultant's Guide Fancy yourself a bit of a marketing whizz? If you're nodding along, but find all the fancy job titles a bit of a muddle, you're...

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Green Construction and Its Rising Significance for Jobseekers in the UK

In the rapidly evolving construction landscape, green construction has become a beacon of innovation, offering tremendous opportunities to jobseekers while addressing key environmental challenges. ...

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Navigating the Job Market: A Guide for White-Collar Workers Amid Automation, the Gig Economy, and the Great Resignation

In the face of evolving economic landscapes and challenges presented by automation and the gig economy, the job market for white-collar workers has become increasingly competitive. As a result, tod...

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How Fluctuating Gas Prices Can Benefit The Hospitality Industry In The UK

The fluctuating gas prices and energy costs within the United Kingdom are causing considerable discussion across various sectors. From households to businesses, the impact of energy prices on our e...

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Potential Growth and Job Opportunities in the UK Economy Amidst Avoiding Recession

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has recently predicted that the UK will avoid a recession this year, a noteworthy contrast to last month's forecast of an economic contraction. This shift towa...

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Employment dates to put in your diary for 2022

It’s always good to get ahead of the game, and now’s the time to get on top of 2022. With so much uncertainty in the world at the minute, we have highlighted some important employment dates that y...

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Recruitment: The first steps on the road to recovery

​The Recruitment industry is almost unique in that it can herald the first indicators of a growing or a struggling economy. It forms a thermostat on the wall of the world indicating which areas are...

What was announced in the 2021 budget review
How does the 2021 budget affect you?

​In his annual Budget review Rishi Sunak has vowed to ‘protect jobs and livelihoods’. A bold statement and one that he, and the rest of the government, need to deliver on for our economic and publi...

The time to start recruiting for 2021 is now
January 2021: The Starting Line

​The new year is always a good time to take stock of what is going on around you. The jobs market is always a good place to start, giving you an indication of the shape of the world around you and ...

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National living and minimum wage increases in 2021

​In the Government’s 2020 spending review, presented by Rishi Sunak on the 25th November, they confirmed that the National Living Wage (NLW) will be increasing in 2021.Here is a table outlining the...

How will changes to IR35 affect you?
What is IR35 and how will it impact you?

​If you are a contractor or a company that employs contractors, you are going to want to know as much about IR35 as possible. Draft legislation that was introduced in the 2020 Finance Bill has alre...

Brexit has had massive impacts on the temporary hiring market in the UK
How is Brexit going to affect the temporary hiring market

​In the latest Labour Force Survey by the Office of National Statistics (ONS) in February 2020, an estimated 2.31 million EU nationals were working in the UK. That amounts to just over 14% of the U...

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Engineering: The saviour of UK manufacturing

​The whole world has seen the vital part engineering has played in fighting the pandemic. Without engineers, the Nightingale hospitals would never have been built, the Ventilator Challenge would ne...

Employers are seeing huge rises in applications
As applications rise, time to hire increases

​As the government winds down its furlough scheme, concerns are mounting over the pace of Britain’s economic recovery and the fate of many employees who won’t be welcomed back to work after furloug...

Now is the time to adapt your business to digital
Adapt & thrive: 5 jobs in demand during & after lockdown

​We are just now venturing into a whole new world, as employees begin to come back to work and businesses reopen their doors after a time which can only be described as extraordinary. Those that ca...

How will Brexit affect the jobs market?
Brave NEU world: Business and jobs after Brexit

​Three years of campaigns, negotiations, delays and uncertainty have finally come to a head; on 31st January 2020, the United Kingdom formally exited the world’s largest trading bloc. For businesse...

Renewable power a focus of recruitment for the future
Powering up recruitment in the energy industry

​As reports of the terrible impact human activity is having on the planet have been increasing, so have levels of consumer awareness. With views on climate change, pollution, wildlife decline and h...

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Candidate Shortages Continue to Hit the UK

July has arrived and it’s about time that we take a mid-year look at what the employment market is doing. Trends for 2018 have been largely positive with unemployment down to 4.2% (as of Feb-Apr 20...

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Beginning 2018 on a High

Recent statistics reflect the happy trend that recruitment in 2018 is on the up for job seekers and recruiters alike!2017 saw the number of people finding jobs through recruiters rise, even whilst ...