Tag: recruitment

Channel recruitment growing

Posted on April 25, 2023 by - News

IT channel recruitment will pick up in second quarter of 2023 and reach pre-Covid levels again in Q3 after a period of major culls to the vendor workforce according to new figures from Robertson Sumner.

Robertson Sumner’s Marc Sumner said that “overpaid” and “over-hired” staff who were laid off from vendors are now seeing channel partners as a safe haven.

He said that firms like Microsoft and Salesforce over-hired during Covid and overpaid people. That bubble was going burst.

During the first quarter the market was stagnant, with people re-evaluating salaries that plateaued during the quarter. However, the first two weeks of second quarter saw volumes of more than any week in first quarter, Sumner said.

IT SMEs have head hunting problems

Posted on March 20, 2018 by - News

Head-hunting-Pictish-warriorThe latest Aldermore Future Attitudes report reveals that four in five (80 percent) of SMEs in the IT sector find it difficult to hire qualified staff members or keep existing talent in the company.

The study, which surveyed over a thousand business decision-makers across the UK, found that the most common concern for SMEs in the IT sector is hiring talented people (40 percent), with crucial employee positions often difficult to fill (24 percent).

Retaining good members of staff once they have been found is a concern for over a quarter of business leaders in the IT sector, with just under a third admitting to currently having a problem with a high workforce turnover. A quarter of companies in the IT sector find it hard to adequately develop employees who demonstrate great potential, and younger employees can be particularly difficult to keep on board (17 percent). A fifth says they have experienced an increase in staff leaving their business compared to a year ago.

Bosses in the IT sector say the most common motive is for a pay increase (22 percent), followed by a change in career (20 percent) and retirement (20 percent). Regarding where they then go, a third of their employees move to a larger company in a different industry, over a quarter (28 percent) land a job at a large organisation in the same sector and one in ten go to another SME in a similar industry.

Carl D’Ammassa, Group Managing Director, Business Finance at Aldermore, said: “It’s a job seeker’s market out there and this trend looks set to continue over the coming years. Talented workers within the SME industry can find new employment quite easily, with many individuals moving on when they feel they can get a better deal or could progress further and quicker in a different environment. Competition for the best industry talent has always been fierce, and business leaders need to put measures in place to ensure their companies are attractive places to work for ambitious employees.

“The best people can have a significant, positive impact on how that business performs, so therefore it is heartening to see that the majority of SMEs acknowledge that it is important to make an effort to keep talented people by offering a good work-life balance, flexible working, and valuable training. This is to be applauded, and many larger employers could learn much from their smaller peers about maintaining staff satisfaction.”

 

You’re hired! By social networking

Posted on November 11, 2013 by - News

crowdsA survey of over 7,000 HR managers, recruiters, and recruitment companies has revealed that social networking is playing an important role in hiring.

According to oilandgaspeople.com, which is a jobs board for the oil and gas industry, 82 percent of employers check out candidates on their social networking sites. And, be careful what you stick on Facebook or Linkedin, because 64 percent rejected applications after examining people’s profiles.

A staggering 88 percent of recruiters use Linkedin, while 25 percent used Twitter and 33 percent industry based boards.

The reason for using social media, according to 77 percent of those surveyed, is that it gives better access to more candidates.  But cost comes into the equation too – 33 percent said using social networking was cost effective, and 41 percent it gave them better insight into job candidates.

Over 63 percent said social media is more effective than print ads for advertising jobs.

Connections Recruitment increases IT job reach and apprenticeships

Posted on March 27, 2013 by - News

Hands across the waterConnections, a family owned recruitment company, is increasing its client and candidate reach.

It has also said it will broaden its offerings and recruitment for IT posts as well as make more moves into apprenticeships.

The company, which has survived tough economic times, running since 1985, employs 15 recruitment specialists and operates from offices in Manchester city centre, Sale and Stockport.

It currently rakes in a turn over of £5 million, but has said that it now wants to ramp this up by 20 percent .

It claims that over the the past 28 years it has placed in excess of 15,000 people in permanent jobs throughout the North West, while it’s also doing its bit for apprentices recently promoting its first apprentice and planning to take on a second to train them in all administrative aspects of the job.

The move is sure to please Prime Minister David Cameron who earlier this month claimed that apprenticeships should  become the “new norm” for school kids who choose not to get into debt by going to university.

Connections works with clients from sole traders to global PLCs and recruits for roles in administration, customer services, accounting, finance, HR, recruitment, logistics, buying, textiles, sales and marketing.

Jonathan Dobkin, co-owner of Connections, said the company’s plan had always been to grow the business organically and expand divisional offering.