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...
“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...
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...
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...
North America – a Niche Recruitment Growth Opportunity As the domestic recruitment market becomes challenging for many UK businesses and our relationship with mainland Europe remains uncertain, we’ve seen more recruitment companies looking to expand internationally. Asia and the Gulf States have become popular markets to explore, with Dubai a common first step for many...
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...
