“Those who are unaware of history are destined to repeat it.” When I started in the IT recruitment industry back in the early 1980’s, for a company called Myriad Appointments, it was a very different world. Before you could get a ‘job-on’ you had to sell the concept of using an agency to clients...
Overview Starting Friday 6th November 2020 at 12:30-13:00, discussing the mental wellbeing challenge of UK Lockdown 2.0, Lysha Holmes director and founder of (Qui Recruitment) and Ian Knowlson director and founder of (Talence) have teamed up to launch a Friday lunchtime show on the Recruiter-Zone . Lively and positive personalities Lysha and Ian expect to...
Recently Ian Knowlson, our Founder, gave a webinar to APSCo-Members looking to move forward into the Post-Covid-workplace recruitment world. In the webinar Ian discussed how the Covid-Pandemic had changed the World of Work and Talent Acquisition, probably forever. Ian considered the impacts this would have on the future–of–work and the future–of–talent. Post-Covid Impact The white...
(First published on Cisco – Future of Work in April 2020 Has the Covid-Pandemic created freedom for the future of work? 250 years ago in the UK a revolution started which totally transformed the social-fabric of every nation on the planet. In 1750 only 15% of people lived in towns with 85% residing in rural-settlements....
Top 5 Recruitment Sectors for Growth in 2020 It’s nearly done. With the country electing a new government and the new parliament voting by 124 votes in favour of the EU Withdrawal agreement Brexit is almost done and business and the country can start to move forward. Well that’s the theory and really only time...
Top Recruitment Sectors for growth in 2019 We are now into our sixth year of this blog series since first writing our amazingly popular blog post Top 5 Recruitment Sectors to be in for the next 5-10 years. With over 25,000 views this remains our most popular blog post ever. Our annual blog has become...
Top 5 Disappearing, Resilient and Emerging Careers 2020-30 Everyone is aware of the 4th Industrial Revolution, which is transforming the future of work and by implication the future of talent recruitment but how important is this? Is this happening now? Whilst much of the UK is absorbed in BREXIT paranoia, which will disrupt the economy...
Accounting Profession – A disappearing future? Is the Accounting Profession and accounting recruitment set to disappear in the future? Industry 4.0 With the 4th Industrial Revolution well under way and Automation, Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence potentially set to displace 7.2 m UK jobs over the next 20 years, many of our clients have started...
Future of Work/Future of Recruitment – Top 10 Reports In our research we read hundred of reports and blogs each year. It is a dynamic landscape with new reports and interviews with sources out each week but the key reports we recommend reading and on which most of our blogs are based are: PWC...
This week Ian Knowlson spoke at the Recruitment Expo at the NEC in Birmingham on the Future of the Recruitment Industry 2020-2030. During the talk Ian discussed many topics including the future of recruitment for Managed Service Providers and Niche Agencies as well as the threats to their businesses future and the opportunities for them....
