Talking Recruitment

Featured speaker: Joanne Lockwood, founder and CEO of SEE Change Happen Joanne joins Neil Carberry to discuss our industry's role in creating diverse and inclusive workplaces. You'll hear about practical steps that your business can take to enable D&I, and to drive the UK’s productivity. Tune in to hear: • How we can be more diverse and inclusive as an industry and as employers • The importance of...

Featured speaker: Michelle Flynn, CBT Practitioner & Certified Health Coach Recruitment will always be a sales business. As we navigate the path of recovery, how can business leaders help their people adapt to the new world of work and deliver against their high targets while providing excellent mental health and well-being support? We spoke to REC business partner and CBT Practitioner & Certified...

Featured speaker: Carmen Watson, Chair, Pertemps Network Group “Young people and women have been hardest hit by the pandemic, so businesses are really going to have to look at how they can embrace those particular populations and how they can bring them into the workforce of the future”. Carmen Watson, Chair, Pertemps Network Group COVID-19 certainly has left a lot of casualties in the labour mark...

Featured speaker: Steven Cooper, Co-Chair, Social Mobility Commission "What was the occupation of your main household earner when you were about 14?" Recent guidance by the Social Mobility Commission highlights this as the single most important question to ask your candidates or staff to assess their socio-economic background. Where are you with your social mobility strategy? We spoke to Steven Co...

Featured speaker: Andrew Chamberlain, Director of Policy, IPSE We know that the new IR35 rules are coming into effect in April 2021. Organisations like the REC and The Association of Independent Professionals and the Self-Employed (IPSE) have been pushing for a delay to this legislation. While we continue our work behind the scenes, it is imperative that all parties in the supply chain are fully a...

Featured speaker: Martin Jackson, Head of Employment Taxes & Training, Croner Taxwise Limited On 6 April 2021, IR35 rules in the private sector will change. How prepared are you? Martin Jackson, Head of Employment Taxes & Training, Croner Taxwise Limited joined Neil Carberry to discuss the upcoming changes, who it applies to and how it affects recruiters. If you're looking for a detailed walk-thro...

Featured speaker: Lorraine Laryea, Recruitment Standards Director, REC In our first Talking Recruitment podcast of 2021, Neil Carberry is joined by REC's new Recruitment Standards Director Lorraine Laryea to discuss the current hot topics in recruitment - Brexit and COVID-19. Lorraine provides clarity on some of the most frequently asked questions by REC members related to: • Brexit and Data Prote...

In the episode Neil Carberry on giving evidence to the APPG on loan charges for their work on understanding the role of Umbrella companies. "The government need to look at how Umbrellas should be regulated and create a fair and ethical playing field." "We have a really robust industry and this is reflected in the 2019/2020 UK recruitment industry status report. The total industry GVA in 2019 is up...

"Pre-pandemic, only 15% of job vacancies were able to reference any form of flexible working in the job vacancy. What we found [post-pandemic] is that the increase has been minimal. It's now 22% of job vacancies in the UK over this year on aggregate are now showing that it's possible to work flexibly from the point of hire." As a recruiter, how do you approach conversations about flexible working...

"It's not just what we can do during global pandemics, but how we handle life in general." Anthony Gruppo, CEO of Marsh Commercial. This has been a unique year. Next year will come with its own share of challenges for new and established leaders. But the key thing that'll determine how you come out of the other end is resilience. Anthony is a visionary and thinker around leadership issues as well...

How can businesses facilitate the transition for candidates in a post-COVID-19 world? How can the employability and recruitment sectors work together to benefit job seekers? We were joined by Tony Carr, Director of 4front partners, and Jo Ingold, Associate Professor, Department of Management, Faculty of Business & Law of Deakin University, to share expert findings from their research on employabil...

"I think there'll be a need to plan for some connection that is more social, more human - on both sides - as we go through the journey of attraction and onboarding." Tech has changed the way we connect with our employees, but also how we build new relationships with future talent. Hear Jayne Haines, Senior Vice President, Talent Leadership and Organisation Development of GSK discuss how they have...

The recent crisis was a catalyst that accelerated tech adoption across our sector and many others. But how can we take tech innovation beyond video conferencing and online candidate screening? We spoke to PwC UK's Director of AI and REC2020 keynote panellists Rob McCargow to learn more about the advantages of automation and AI in recruitment. Tune in to our latest podcast to hear about: • PwC UK's...

How are client expectations changing and how can recruiters change their operations to meet them? What lessons can we learn from international businesses who used this crisis as an opportunity to innovate? We spoke to Rhona Driggs, Chief Executive Officer of global staffing specialists Empresaria Group on the key lessons they learnt during the crisis and what advice they'd give to fellow recruitme...

Employees are the backbone of any successful business. Ever considered 'employee ownership' as a succession strategy for your recruitment business? We spoke to the Chief Executive of Employee Ownership Association Deb Oxley OBE. She thinks employee ownership unleashes the power of ownership in an individual and explains what makes employee ownership a popular way of managing succession. But how do...

With the Brexit deadline looming large, what is your game plan for survival? Thinking international is a great starting point, and there are plenty of success stories in the recruitment fraternity where you can gather inspiration from. One such example is Gattaca, an international recruitment business with more than 800 staff across the world. Hear Gattaca's CEO Kevin Freeguard share his advice an...

What should remote leadership look like? Hear James Reed, Chairman of The Reed Group share his leadership lessons including what today's leaders should be doing now to become a future-focused people's leader. James kicks off his discussion with Neil Carberry with Reed's latest labour market insights while adding his own findings on where our economy is headed which hints on his optimism about our...

Many recruiters have been through a tough time but as we move forward there is also clarity emerging around how to build back better and use the current circumstances to innovate and do things differently. This episode asks Richard Bradley, Managing Director UK & Ireland from Kelly Services and Richard Vickers, Chief Executive Officer from Search Consultancy what opportunities they see and what th...

On 6 April 2021, IR35 rules in the private sector will definitely change. Are you ready for these changes? Hear Emma Agyemang, tax correspondent at the Financial Times discuss the impact of IR35. She reflects on the key learnings from the rollout of these changes in the public sector. Emma was also named the 'Business Journalist of the Year' in 2019 by the Words By Women Awards particularly for he...

Adaptability and collaboration were two key qualities that came to the fore in the recent crisis. We saw these qualities come to life as the nation's health and social care staff and agencies came together to keep our essential services running. Sanctuary Personnel was one such agency that worked closely with their clients, contractors, and the NHS at a time like this. Hear James Rook, CEO of Sanc...

"We're starting to see some evidence that virtual work-experience is perhaps more comfortable for some young people who come from lower socio-economic backgrounds where they feel more confident doing it in a blended environment." Severn Trent Water's Group HR Director Neil Morrison is a big advocate of candidate experience and joined the latest episode of our Talking Recruitment podcast. Neil shar...

The Good Care Group were well placed to switch to digital recruitment after a review of processes in 2018 had already led them to doing more online, including candidate interviews. Good Recruitment Collective (GRC) signatory and The Good Care Group's Head of Recruitment Marketing Tine Norling shares her experience of doing more online to help candidates get into work. Some of the key takeaways fro...

When COVID-19 hit, business priorities shifted. Survival took priority for many, and the candidate experience got lost in the midst of need for speed - recruiting in retail and health for example. Candidate experience is back on the agenda as businesses’ hiring intentions are slowly improving. But as consultants to your clients, how can agency recruiters step in to help their clients improve the c...

Join REC CEO Neil Carberry in discussion with Charles Cameron Chief Executive of RCSA Australia and New Zealand, and fellow Board Member at the World Employment Confederation. Their conversation explores the impact of COVID-19 on the UK and Australian labour markets, recovery strategies, and how recruiters can bounce back. You'll hear about: • The future of the recruitment industry • How recruiter...

The COVID-19 pandemic has been a crisis on a truly global scale. We want to explore the impact outside the UK to see if there are any lessons we can learn and/or opportunities for greater collaboration internationally, particularly with our European neighbours. We were joined by Bettina Schaller, Director Group Public Affairs at Adecco Group and President of the World Employment Confederation Euro...