{"id":1294,"date":"2018-11-30T17:07:14","date_gmt":"2018-11-30T17:07:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.recruitment-connection.co.uk\/?p=1294"},"modified":"2018-11-30T17:07:26","modified_gmt":"2018-11-30T17:07:26","slug":"market-commentary-nov-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.recruitment-connection.co.uk\/index.php\/2018\/11\/market-commentary-nov-18\/","title":{"rendered":"Market Commentary Nov 18  &#8211; Demand still high"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>\n<h4><span style=\"color: #003366;\"><strong>Steeper increases in permanent placements<\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h4><span style=\"color: #003366;\"><strong>Starting salary inflation close to September&#8217;s recent high<\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h4><span style=\"color: #003366;\"><strong>Steeper decline in candidate supply<\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em><strong>Commentary<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<em>\u201cfirms continue to hire new staff at near record rates. With the jobs market so heated, businesses across the country, of all types, are struggling to find work ready staff. Some clients tell us they are seeing the worst period of staff availability for many a year. A four-decade low in unemployment means good candidates are at a premium. Consequently, we\u2019re seeing wages pushed upwards and now may be a good time to move to secure\u00a0 a pay rise!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #003366;\">Key points\u00a0<\/span><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #003366;\">Staff appointments increase at quicker pace&#8230;<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #003366;\">The number of people placed into permanent jobs rose at a sharp and accelerated rate in October.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #003366;\">&#8230;as demand for staff remains robust<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #003366;\">Growth of demand for staff remained historically sharp at the start of the fourth quarter.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #003366;\">Starting salary inflation continues to rise&#8230;<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #003366;\">&#8230;driven by sustained fall in candidate availability..<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #003366;\">Overall candidate availability declined at the quickest pace for nine months in October.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steeper increases in permanent placements Starting salary inflation close to September&#8217;s recent high Steeper decline in candidate supply Commentary \u00a0\u201cfirms continue to hire new staff at near record rates. With the jobs market so heated, businesses across the country, of all types, are struggling to find work ready staff. Some clients tell us they are seeing the worst period of staff availability for many a year. A four-decade low in unemployment means good candidates are at a premium. Consequently, we\u2019re seeing wages pushed upwards and now may be a good time to move to secure\u00a0 a pay rise! Key points\u00a0&#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":[52,58,174],"tags":[87,49,50,83,206],"class_list":["post-1294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-employment-market-indicators","category-financial-services-news","category-simon-bean","tag-job-market","tag-labour","tag-market","tag-news","tag-recruitment-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.recruitment-connection.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1294","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=1294"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.recruitment-connection.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1294\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1296,"href":"https:\/\/www.recruitment-connection.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1294\/revisions\/1296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.recruitment-connection.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.recruitment-connection.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.recruitment-connection.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}