Business confidence in the UK economy improved significantly in January-March, Employer confidence in making hiring and investment decisions remained stable.
Short-Term Outlook:
Do you think the number of permanent workers in your organisation will increase or decrease in the next three months?
- Employers' intentions to hire permanent staff in the short term remained stable in the first quarter of 2021 at net: +20.
- This was one percentage point higher than both the previous rolling quarter and the first quarter of 2020.
- Hiring intentions were highest in London (net: +30) and lowest in the devolved nations(net: +12).
- There were also notably higher in micro/small (net: +22) and medium (net: +24) enterprises than in the UK's largest organisations (net: +13).
Medium-term outlook:
Do you think the number of permanent workers in your organisation will increase or decrease in the next four to twelve months?
- Intentions to hire permanent staff in the medium term decreased by two percentage points from the previous rolling quarter to net: +28. This was six percentage points higher than a year earlier.
- Hiring intentions were highest in the Midlands (net: +33) and the South (including London) (net: +31) and lowest in the devolved nations (net: +19).
- They were higher in micro/small (net: +34) enterprises than medium-sized (net: +25) or large (net: +24) organisations.
I think many Hiring Managers would agree when I say finding top talent in a competitive market is certainly a big challenge right now.
So, before you even entertain hiring and on-boarding, have you audited your own business? As many of these factors Candidates will be assessing.
These factors will determine whether Candidates join you or not, stay with you in growth periods or not; position yourself as a business that makes it attractive to be part of your journey:
✳ Their Manager
✳ Leadership
✳ Culture
✳ Branding
✳ Social impact
✳ Learning & Development
✳ Working arrangements
✳ Reward
✳ Tools
✳ Well-being
✳ The team
#hiringrecruiters #employerbranding #interviewprocess #understandingyourbusiness
Is the BIOR bridging the gap between legislation and practice?
The 'Recruitment Certification Scheme' is operated by The British Institute of Recruiters, the Professional staffing body and was created with input from all 3 of the UKs enforcement bodies responsible for state enforcement of specific employment rights – EAS, HMRC NMW/NLW team & GLAA.
The idea of the Certification, is that it will demonstrate your understanding of the fundamental knowledge, terminology, and processes of effective and compliant recruitment.
Both Recruitment Agencies or Individual Agency or In-House Recruiters can gain Certification to 'Certified Recruitment Business Partner' Status.
❓❔ What is the value of such certification............... ? Have we seen something similar with the REC membership ?
✴ Does it Increase earning potential as it shows clients a level of competence?
✴ Will the Certification mean you are meeting demands of Clients?
✴ Does it enhances professional credibility?
✴ Enriches self-image and reputation among peers?
✴ Will it help with promotion and job portability?
Interested to know your thoughts and if being a 'Partner' has already helped to scale your business either for your employees or for your Clients.
#recruitment #BIOR #staffing #recruitmentcomplaince
The results are in. Our Associate Director ran x2 polls recently on LinkedIn which covered Hiring Managers and also workplace colleagues:
Other comments included:
"I'd say they're all overused, now they're "striving" for the "agile", "detail-oriented", "team player", who's a "results-oriented", "self-starter", to join a "Disruptive tech team" lol"
Other comments included:
"I regularly got told off in a previous sales job for speaking too loudly on the phone, in a sales job"
"Laughing out loud when on a teams call
Belching"
"Chewing loudly with their mouth opened"
Good news for job seekers - Job Postings continue to rise (data from a major Job Board).
Job postings during w/c 12th April is the highest level since January 2020.
The number of job postings during this period increased by an impressive +18.2 per cent compared to the previous week and was +21 per cent higher than the weekly average.
The data also revealed the regions which witnessed highest volume of vacancies, during w/c 12th April:
✳ 1. South East (9,608 jobs)
✳ 2. London (7,564 jobs)
✳ 3. East Anglia (5,555 jobs)
✳ 4. West Midlands (5,280 jobs)
✳ 5. North West (5,271 jobs)
✳ 6. South West (4,682 jobs)
✳ 7. East Midlands (4,608 jobs)
✳ 8. North East (4,065 jobs)
✳ 9. Scotland (1,791 jobs)
✳ 10. Wales (1,378 jobs)
