Month: January 2024

Office technology provider, SOS Group, has signed a new five year contract with one of the UK’s largest and most established recruitment companies, Meridian Business Support. Meridian Business Support specialises in the recruitment of temporary, permanent and contract hiring, on average providing over 4,000 temporary staff per week and placing over 1,200 permanent candidates a […]

Did you know that on average, women will work for free for 2-months this year due to the gender pay gap? Volcanic is proud to be the only recruitment website provider in the market that truly blends digital performance with inclusivity, following the latest launch of our D&I tools. So as we continue the work […]

December labour demand was lower than in previous years but labour shortages are still supporting activity – REC  The number of active postings in the month of December 2023 was 1,710,492, a 24.3% decrease from the month before (November 2023) and a 32% decrease from December 2022 (2,516,973). There were 2.8 million active vacancies in […]

At the end of every year we survey hundreds of agency leaders across the UK and Ireland. Enabling the Firefish Software marketing team to paint a picture of how business has been, growth forecasts for the year ahead and the strategies they are prioritising. The 2024 Recruitment Agency Report is now live and here’s a […]

As a follow-up to last year’s research which looked at the profile of recruitment Marketing Leaders, we explore the career paths and experiences of those in situ at the end of 2023 A decreasing proportion of recruitment industry Marketing Leaders have been ‘home grown’ Amongst the pool of c.3.2k individuals engaged in a marketing capacity […]