Maybe, just maybe, there are some green shoots out there. The latest jobs survey published by REC and KPMG, for example, suggests that signs of recovery are now beginning to appear in the labour market. This doesn’t mean that unemployment won’t stop unemployment rising for a while yet. But a little bit of brighter news does emphasise that even in the teeth of recession recruitment doesn’t stop altogether. And the same always remains true - the highest performers are most likely to be snapped up first.

 

So is it back to business as usual if you have a vacancy – ring an agency, get a few CV’s, have a chat and hire someone? Not if you are looking for the best result. As we constantly repeat, recruitment is the most important HR process. ‘Good’ employees are much more productive than ‘average’ employees. So getting it right is vital – and never more so than when every £ you can afford to spend on pay has to work as well as possible. What has changed in the last few months is that the number of responses you will get to ads has gone up – increasing your recruitment admin costs – and using an expensive agency generally makes even less sense – even on a contingency basis – now that web based advertising and other targeted time saving recruitment services have grown up. So our suggestion to all employers is – use the current climate as an opportunity to permanently reduce your future recruitment costs and to increase the quality of your recruitment decisions.

 

Can we help? Yes. Have you got anything to lose? No.

 

The website link to our recruitment page is http://www.hradvantage.co.uk/our-solutions/hra-recruitment/