{"id":470,"date":"2015-05-13T12:09:32","date_gmt":"2015-05-13T11:09:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.recruitment-connection.co.uk\/?p=470"},"modified":"2015-05-13T12:09:32","modified_gmt":"2015-05-13T11:09:32","slug":"april-survey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.recruitment-connection.co.uk\/index.php\/2015\/05\/april-survey\/","title":{"rendered":"April Employment Survey News"},"content":{"rendered":"

Key points from the April survey:\"office<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n
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  • Strongest increase in permanent staff appointments in eight months<\/li>\n
  • Acceleration of pay growth for permanent and temporary staff<\/li>\n
  • Candidate availability deteriorated further<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

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    The main findings for April are:<\/strong><\/h2>\n

    Permanent placements growth accelerates…<\/span><\/h3>\n

    The number of people placed in permanent jobs by recruitment consultants continued to rise in April. In fact, the rate of expansion quickened to an eight-month high. This reflected a stronger increase in demand for staff, with permanent vacancies rising at the fastest pace since October 2014. This made it the strongest growth of demand for permanent staff in 6 months.<\/p>\n

    Pay growth strengthens…<\/span><\/h3>\n

    Growth of permanent staff salaries accelerated to a nine-month high in April, with panellists highlighting a combination of strong demand and skill shortages. Hourly rates of pay for temporary\/contract staff meanwhile increased at the fastest pace since July 2007.<\/p>\n

    …amid tight candidate availability<\/span><\/h3>\n

    The availability of staff to fill permanent roles deteriorated further in April, with the rate of contraction accelerating to the sharpest in five months. As much as around 41% of panellists reported lower permanent candidate availability versus 9% noting an improvement. Temporary\/contract staff availability meanwhile declined at a marked pace that was similar to that seen in March.<\/p>\n

    Public & private sector vacancies…<\/span><\/h3>\n

    Private sector demand for staff continued to rise at a stronger pace than that for public sector workers in April. The fastest rate of growth overall was signalled for private sector permanent employees.<\/p>\n

    Other vacancy indicators…<\/span><\/h3>\n

    Latest official data from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) signalled that vacancies rose 19.8% on an annual basis in the three months to March. That was the slowest growth since January 2014.<\/p>\n

    Meanwhile, internet-based recruitment spending was up 4.5% on a year-on-year basis in the fourth quarter of 2014. This was the weakest rise since the first quarter of 2013.<\/p>\n

    Top Permanent Staff Sectors for Recruitment…<\/span><\/h3>\n

    Good news for candidates in the financial services job market as Executive\/Professional was the most in-demand category for permanent staff in April, with Accounting\/Financial in second place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Key points from the April survey: Strongest increase in permanent staff appointments in eight months Acceleration of pay growth for permanent and temporary staff Candidate availability deteriorated further   The main findings for April are: Permanent placements growth accelerates… The number of people placed in permanent jobs by recruitment consultants continued to rise in April. In fact, the rate of expansion quickened to an eight-month high. This reflected a stronger increase in demand for staff, with permanent vacancies rising at the fastest pace since October 2014. This made it the strongest growth of demand for permanent staff in 6 months…. <\/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":[52,13],"tags":[29,41,24,20,39,19,33,21],"class_list":["post-470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-employment-market-indicators","category-statistics","tag-candidate","tag-job","tag-permanent","tag-placements","tag-salary","tag-staff","tag-survey","tag-vacancies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.recruitment-connection.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470","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=470"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.recruitment-connection.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":471,"href":"https:\/\/www.recruitment-connection.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470\/revisions\/471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.recruitment-connection.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.recruitment-connection.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.recruitment-connection.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}