{"id":1211,"date":"2018-06-11T16:05:23","date_gmt":"2018-06-11T16:05:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.recruitment-connection.co.uk\/?p=1211"},"modified":"2018-06-13T11:01:31","modified_gmt":"2018-06-13T11:01:31","slug":"further-marked-rise-in-recruitment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.recruitment-connection.co.uk\/index.php\/2018\/06\/further-marked-rise-in-recruitment\/","title":{"rendered":"Further marked rise in recruitment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span style=\"color: #333399;\">\u00a0Key points market indicators :<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Steep increases in permanent placements<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Severe staff shortages leads to quickest rise in starting salaries for three years<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Staff vacancies expand at the quickest pace since last November<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><em>Despite growth in demand for staff this month, there has been another drop in staff availability. There has been a rise in client recruitment indicating that employers are feeling confident in making hiring decisions but a lack of candidates remains a major challenge<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><em>Because of the lack of candidate availability we are seeing employers paying higher salaries to attract the right people. This is only part of the solution, with employers also having to think about providing a more flexible working environment and progression opportunities. With skills needs and candidate expectations continuing to evolve, employers are having to radically re-imagine their hiring procedures.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong>Appointments continue to rise strongly&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Permanent appointments continued to rise at a robust pace, despite growth softening to a five-month low.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #333399;\">&#8230;as demand for staff strengthens<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Growth of demand for staff strengthened to a six-month high in May, with sharp increases in permanent roles .<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #333399;\">Sharp fall in candidate availability&#8230;<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Overall, candidate availability declined at a sharper rate midway through the second quarter. Candidate numbers fell at the fastest rate for four months, while short-term staff availability deteriorated at the quickest pace since last November.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong>&#8230;leads to steepest increase in starting salaries for three years<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Strong demand for staff and low candidate availability underpinned further increases in starting salaries and temp pay. Notably, salaries awarded to successfully placed permanent workers rose at the steepest rate for three years<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0Key points market indicators : Steep increases in permanent placements Severe staff shortages leads to quickest rise in starting salaries for three years Staff vacancies expand at the quickest pace since last November Despite growth in demand for staff this month, there has been another drop in staff availability. There has been a rise in client recruitment indicating that employers are feeling confident in making hiring decisions but a lack of candidates remains a major challenge Because of the lack of candidate availability we are seeing employers paying higher salaries to attract the right people. This is only part of&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"twitterCardType":"app","cardImageID":0,"cardImage":"","cardTitle":"","cardDesc":"","cardImageAlt":"","cardPlayer":"","cardPlayerWidth":0,"cardPlayerHeight":0,"cardPlayerStream":"","cardPlayerCodec":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[52,54,174,13],"tags":[53,92,49,50,83,102,21],"class_list":["post-1211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-employment-market-indicators","category-recruitment","category-simon-bean","category-statistics","tag-employment-market-news","tag-financial-services-news","tag-labour","tag-market","tag-news","tag-recruitment-connection-ltd","tag-vacancies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.recruitment-connection.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.recruitment-connection.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.recruitment-connection.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.recruitment-connection.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.recruitment-connection.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1211"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.recruitment-connection.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1211\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1215,"href":"https:\/\/www.recruitment-connection.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1211\/revisions\/1215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.recruitment-connection.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.recruitment-connection.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.recruitment-connection.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}