There has been huge confusion at specialist graduate recruitment websites in the last few days after the Department for Work and Pensions told This is Money that companies shouldn’t advertise roles under the Kickstart Scheme yet. Chancellor Rishi Sunak revealed the scheme nearly two months ago in his mini-budget and said more details would be … Read more
With lockdown hiring freezes, furlough schemes and almost all travel scuppered, investors were braced for recruitment group Hays to have a difficult quarter. The coronavirus pandemic has created ‘conditions far harsher than any I have known’, Hays chief executive Alistair Cox said. Net fee income – the industry’s version of gross profit – fell by … Read more
Fellow team members may be better at assessing candidates than the actual recruiters, a Blind report found. The potential for AI to eliminate hiring bias Shazam co-founder Dhiraj Mukherjee on what to expect from ‘Tech for Good’ companies in an interview at The Economist’s Innovation Summit 2018. Nearly all (96%) tech employees don’t think recruiters … Read more