Job vacancies outpace unemployment for first time

From BBC News There are more job vacancies than unemployed people in the UK for the first time since records began. The unemployment rate fell to 3.7% between January and March, its lowest for almost 50 years, as job openings rose to a new high of 1.3 million....

Accommodating Disabilities In Remote And Hybrid Work

From Forbes For the past half-century, national laws and innovative architectural design features have ensured that professionals of all physical ability levels are equipped to equally participate in workplace environments. But now that hybrid is the new normal, it...
The extremes of recruitment

The extremes of recruitment

This extraordinary chart from the Office for National Statistics highlights the extremes of recruitment during the pandemic. From plummeting vacancies in 2020, to a labour shortage in 2022. Specifically, vacancies rose to a record 1,298,400 in November 2021 to January...

How the career landscape is evolving

Julie Graham, CEO of Ingeus’s Employment Services, looks at what we might expect in the recruitment sector in 2022. Originally posted here Julie Graham provides insights both regionally and nationally as well as those from a candidate perspective. Nationally, she...

Brilliant Reasons to Employ Disabled People

This is an extract from an excellent article by Toby Mildon on Linkedin. You can access it here. “For this conversation, I spoke with Jane Hatton. I first met Jane in 2012 when I was working at the BBC as a project manager in technology. At the time I...