It’s here again, our popular annual blog that looks into the future and predicts the recruitment sectors that are geared for high growth in 2017. 2016 has seen some dramatic changes in the World. The UK voting for Brexit and the US voting for Donald Trump have seen a huge shift towards populist voting and...

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...

It’s a dog-eat-dog world when it comes to talent attraction. There is an ongoing war on talent and recruiters show no mercy when it comes to poaching staff. They will relentlessly hunt your prime talent in an effort to nail that candidate. They will think nothing of leaving you behind, wondering why your most capable...

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...

      Was anyone apart from the board of directors of HMV or Blockbuster surprised when their businesses went into liquidation? I know I wasn’t and most people I have spoken too weren’t either. After all technology changed the way their customers could purchase their products and both HMV and Blockbuster were slow to...

Top 5 Recruitment Sectors to be in for next 5-10 years With unemployment typically running at 8-11% across the developed economies of the world it seems bizarre to be talking about skills shortages but that is the reality of the world today. In last weeks blog ‘Can we win the Global Talent War’ I mentioned...

    If you read my blog ‘Third World War begins Now – Recruitment Agencies Mercenaries or Allies?’ then you will know that over the next 5-15 years the world is a facing seismic escalation in the ‘War-on-Talent’. The 140 million shortfall in skilled workers that China alone will face by 2030 is testament to...

    Dramatic? Possibly but the scale of what the world faces over the next few years is beyond anything we have ever experienced in our history and the consequences for the global War-on-Talent are massive. Read on and form your own opinion.   In recent months there have been a number of reports released...