Recruitment

The soaring cost of living threatens to setback economic recovery by years, impacting agencies and your clients. However, as with any crisis, the current situation provides opportunities. For agencies, it is well worth doing some initial work to understand the potential of upskilling and reskilling agency supplied workers and teams.

For some, the entrepreneurial spirit of the recruitment sector drives the quest to grow agencies and perhaps even embrace different business models. Are you considering moving up the value chain?

In an uncertain market subject to rapid fluctuations, knowing which way to orient a recruitment business is sure to keep agency owners and principals awake at night. Are you geared up for a market characterised by spiky demand?

The worst effects of the pandemic seem to be receding. In its wake it has given us the gift of proving that hybrid working has benefits, most importantly boosting productivity. Have you let your team go hybrid yet?

With the shortage of general labour as well as specialised talent, there are opportunities for agencies as they adapt to the market conditions. Is it time you considered shaking up your approach to the market?

Technology moves forward and drags us along with it, whether we like it or not. But do you ever stop and ask just where RecTech might be taking your agency?

For the recruitment industry, despite contending with serious shortages of skills and talent, there are trends that point towards the overall good health of the sector and continuing prosperity, giving recruitment businesses good cause to be optimistic.

Technology has been instrumental in helping many of today’s most successful recruitment businesses. However, has it reached the limit of what can be achieved? And how can recruitment technology help recruitment businesses achieve greater success?

The cost of living crisis is likely to be a difficult time for many agency supplied staff with commoditised skills, and there is a significant potential for the situation to increase shortages of workers. But what can agencies do to help temp and contract workers weather the cost of living crisis?