Top Five Global Recruitment Markets for 2025   2025 is headlined to be a challenging year for the global economy making it hugely perplexing for recruitment sector MDs, CEOs and executives to make strategic forecasts. This year is my 40th working in the sector and my experience of other periods economic uncertainty and malaise is...

UK Skills Crisis – We need change… Now The UK Skills Crisis is probably the biggest challenge the UK Recruitment Industry has faced this century.Whilst the crisis has been brewing for years and repeated governments have sought to address the issue with minor interventions to our education systems, our adult training and the UK corporation...

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...

Future of Recruitment 2020-2030 This month Ian Knowlson will be speaking at Recruitment Expo 2018, the UK’s No 1 Recruitment Industry Event in London on 31st January 2018. In his lively and stimulating talk Ian will share his knowledge, as an employment futurist and experience as a highly successful Business Growth Coach, to help attendees...

So here we are nearly two years after I wrote Top 5 Recruitment Sectors to be in for next 5-10 years and unemployment was still rising across most of Europe and the UK economy flat-lining how things have changed for us. Today the Eurozone is stagnating but the UK has enjoyed a solid eighteen months of...

Since March 2013 when I wrote my immensely popular blog Top 5 Recruitment Sectors to be in for the next 5-10 years, I have been consistently asked what are the recruitment sectors agencies should be avoiding. The first thing to say is that in my opinion, and those of most employment sector commentators, over the next...

  As we have been predicting ourselves in our two recent blogs the War on Talent is set to intensify. Can You win the Global Talent War Third World War begins Now – Recruitment Agencies Mercenaries or Allies?   In this weeks Press release the CIPD chief economist, Mark Beatson stated: “Businesses tell us they’ve been...