Employers’ blog & Insights

The New Year can be a busy time for recruiters. Employers optimistically looking towards taking on fresh recruits to nurture company growth, whilst employees are looking for new opportunities to…

2016 coming to a close and the New Year beckons. Meanwhile, LinkedIn has released its recruitment trends for 2017. The Small and Mid-Sized Business Recruiting Trends 2017, is based on responses…

New research has found that following the results of the EU referendum vote in June, the number of people being employed for permanent positions has dropped. Markit has compiled the…

There is an increasing demand for contract employment in the UK’s IT industry. This means that our specialist recruitment services are in high demand. We are proud to announce that…

Despite uncertainty about Britain’s future in Europe and Brexit concerns, the recruitment sector remains buoyant in the UK, particularly temporary recruitment. A survey compiled in 2015 showed the UK’s recruitment…

Head-hunting and poaching are common in the digital and technology world. Everyone wants to attract candidates with the very best skills and the very latest knowledge, crucial to keep up…

Recruiting your first employees as a brand new company can be a risky business. After all, the biggest mistake a start-up can make is to overreach itself and try to…

There are many significant benefits of hiring more young employees, graduates and bright new talent. For example, it can:

• Bring in fresh new skills and ideas
• Help your company to ‘move with the times’
• Build your company’s talent pipeline – so as to secure its future
• Enable you to grow and nurture talent, so you don’t have to spend so much buying it in
• Improve your brand as an employer

So, if you weren’t considering investing in young people, to attract them to your company, why not – when you could potentially be missing out on all of these benefits?

Research conducted by Censuswide on behalf of Indeed in 2014, found that 78% of US jobseekers said they would use their mobile devices to apply for jobs if the process was simplified. We have to admit it seems recruiters have taken notice because if you’ve been searching for a job via the likes of a tablet or smartphone in recent months, you may have noticed a new phrase has popped up on many of the recruitment sites and career pages – ‘apply for this job from your mobile device’.