It is difficult to predict the outcomes for employers with the new coalition government, the CIPD’s John Philpot believes that unemployment will be driven to 3million unemployed under this new regime which indicates that it will be a slow recovery.
What is certain over the last 2 years is that the recruitment game has changed considerably as recruitment companies have adapted to suit the needs of their customers. Although, there are increasing numbers of organisations who are starting to look at recruitment again they are finding that the skills to find top talent have changed too.
The Global RPO Report 2010 found that 6 in 10 HR units have five or fewer staff and more than a third spend less than 10% of their time on recruitment with only one fifth devoting 75% of their time on recruitment.
It is no surprise that Online Recruitment companies like HR Connexions are seeing a growth in re-educating & supporting employers to attract, engage and retain talent.
Employers are now looking to build recruitment as part of a strategy rather than the previous knee jerk reactions of “I need more staff”. With the E-Recruitment technology and support solutions available, companies are very quickly getting up to speed with new processes and job seeker habits”.
There were 14.2million recruitment related searches in March 2010 and this has almost doubled since December 2009. With so many ways now available to use the Internet to attract these applicants, it is key for employers to know the right ones and how to use them if they are going to attract and retain today’s talent.
