Report on Jobs
The Report on Jobs is a monthly publication sponsored by the Recruitment and Employment Confederation and KPMG LLP.
The recruitment industry is regarded as an incredibly valuable 'on the ground' barometer for actual candidate and business behaviour and performance.
Catherine Johnstone Recruitment is one of 400 agencies nationally that contribute to this piece of research on a monthly basis featuring original survey data providing the most up to date picture of recruitment, employment, staff availability and employee earnings trends available - Invaluable to those wanting a quick snapshot of the current jobs market!
Every month we will post up the latest report here for you to download so you can keep yourself completely updated.
Market Info - Report on Jobs
File: Report on Jobs - April 2011
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Key points from April survey:
- Strong and accelerated rise in permanent staff placements.
- Temp billings increased at the slowest rate in four months.
- Permanent salary inflation edged up to nine-month high.
- Fastest rise in temp pay for a year.
- Candidate availability continued to improve.
Commenting on the latest survey results, Bernard Brown, Partner and Head of Business Services at KPMG said:
“The latest figures reveal a very mixed picture of the UK job market. In many areas of the private sector employers feel confident to hire again on a full time basis, though the picture is very different in the public sector where hiring freezes and cost cutting seems to be the order of the day. Indeed, private sector businesses with a dependency on the public sector are clearly on a knife edge, as they wait to understand how the unfolding government policy will impact them. The fundamental issue facing the UK’s ‘twin track’ job market is whether the private sector can create enough jobs to offset the expected job losses in the public sector.
“If the government encourages greater private sector engagement in the provision of public services, this would not only support creation of private sector jobs in the UK, but provide a platform for those business services providers to export their skills, as governments around the world grapple with how to reduce their deficits and transform public services.”
