Latest recruitment trends
The Recruitment and Employment Confederation's latest Report on Jobs has just been issued for April 2011 and it shows mixed fortunes within the employment market. There was a strong and accelerated rise in permanent placements and permanent salary inflation edged up to a nine month high. However this was countered by temporary billings increasing at the slowest rate since July and increased levels of candidate availability.
In many areas it seems that private sector companies are confident to hire again, but the negative impact of cost cutting and pay freezes in the public sector is being felt. The fundamental issue facing the UK's 'twin track' job market is whether the private sector can create enough jobs (and quickly enough) to offset the expected job losses in the public sector.