Unless you have been living under a rock, you know there is a surplus of vacancies over candidates willing to move. Consequently, there is noticeable pay inflation going on – including in the recruitment sector. But while some recruiters are ghosted by...
During the lockdowns over the last 2 years, it was often said that people became either “a hunk, a chunk or a drunk”*, depending on how they responded to circumstances. For certain, in my own circle, I cannot think of one person who was unaffected by the...
Every day my inbox is chockful of new bits of “news” for recruiters – cataclysmic labour shortages, unhappy employees, “revenge resignations”, the skills/jobs mismatch, the rising costs of running a business… the list goes on. One recruitment business owner, of...
I read a story about the late Prince Phillip recently, it described how he had stopped the practice of a bottle of Scotch being placed by the Queen’s bed every night and removed, unopened, the next morning. It turns out that a doctor had once told Queen Victoria that...
The pandemic has made it absolutely clear that we are not “all in the same boat”. More accurately, all recruitment businesses have been through the same storm – but our ships are different. Many recruitment businesses I know had their best ever year in 2020, and...
