Recruitment – Where Are We Now

Recruitment – Where Are We Now This year has already been dubbed the ‘Year of the Candidate’, as growing economic confidence is shifting the power from the employer to the employee. After years of economic uncertainty which encouraged employees to stay in the same job and prompted employers to be cautious about making investments in new staff, the continued positive news is reinvigorating the employment market. However, the role of a recruiter has changed dramatically over the last decade – not least the new timescales enabled by social media and mobile. Add in the new complexities of employers looking to support flexible working and access new added-value skill sets, and the recruitment model looks very different. Economic Confidence: A great deal has changed since the last time the jobs market experienced any kind of frenzied activity.