Recruitment - how hard can it be?

摘要

Well on the one hand you could say that recruitment is easy...you have a vacancy, you promote it, people apply, you interview and assess them and you offer someone the job and they start - 'Simples' as the meerkat says! On the other hand 'it can be harder than brain surgery' as stated by my colleague Graham Weemes, director at Penna Recruitment Solutions on a regular basis. Graham along with the Penna team spends most of his time auditing, designing and delivering significantly large and complex recruitment programmes. Over the last year the recruitment market place has changed significantly, moving from an employer-driven one to a more candidate-driven one, with opportunities starting to outnumber prospective candidates. Just take a look at this week's MJ job pages against the same time last year and read next week's The Talent Issue Penna research into the talent shortages being experienced by the public sector to evidence this.