Category: Recruitment

Recent studies have shown that there has been a huge increase in employability anxiety over recent years and this hits students more so than other groups of people. It may be that you have spent years studying towards a profession in which you want to work and possibly have racked up thousands of pounds worth of debt in the process. When the time finally comes for you to graduate and start to look for work, the worry and stress of it all can be too much for some.

For all the employability tips in the world, there’s no escaping the fact that the prospect of leaving uni and finding a job can be scary. Students have described the feeling from a knot in their stomach to a full blown anxiety attach with leaves them struggling for breath and feeling extremely over whelmed. Building a support network at university can really help. Your friends are probably feeling the same way, so it can help to speak to them about your worries. You can also speak to specialist career advisors or seek help from a councillor who will be able to give you some coping skills for dealing with stress and amenity.

When you are an employer looking to fill a job opportunity that you have, you will probably be all too familiar with the usual time consuming process and costly expense of advertising the position and then trawling through huge amount of CV’s. After you have narrowed the CV’s down you then have to run a round of interviews possibly even two or three rounds, quizzing candidates before finding the right one.

On average it is said to cost approximately £4000-£4500 to fill a vacancy, this is taking in to account advertising costs and cost of the people carrying out the interviews and managing the recruitment process.

Another option you have as an employer is to use a recruitment agency to help you fill the position. They can take a lot of the hassle away from you by doing all the advertising of the job, filtering through CV’s and then carrying out basic interviews, often over the phone, to try and narrow down the number of candidates they send to you and allowing them only to send the most suitable.

Agencies will charge a fee for this service which is often calculated as a percentage of the job roles’ annual salary. You can use more than one agency at a time and only pay the one that finds you the suitable candidate but some agencies will offer you a reduced rate if you give them sole rights to filling the position.

If you run your own business then there may come a time when you need to take on members of staff. Taking on your first member of staff can be worrying as you may be concerned about the implications it may have.

You firstly need to consider if you are able to cover their wage on a monthly or weekly basis. If your business struggles one month then you may have to go with a smaller wage but you cannot expect an employee to do the same.

As an employer you will be responsible for allowing the member of staff to have holiday pay, sick pay and also maternity / paternity pay. You will also have to look in to the pension contribution aspect and the contribution you need to pay to HMRC as part of the PAYE.

Before you advertise the job, make sure you know exactly what you expect the applicate to be doing day to day, the hours they will be required to work and the salary you are offering. You should also think about what qualifications or experience you require them to have and which ones you would prefer them to have if possible.

If you are in the process of looking for a new job then you may wish to consider registering with a recruitment agency. The job of a recruitment agency is to find jobs that you may be able to apply for that match your skills and qualifications. Some recruitment agencies offer both temporary and long term job opportunities and you can even ask for them to look for both for you, a temp job until they find you a long term position.

When you are using a recruitment agency, especially if it is for temp work you may wish to call them on a daily basis to see if they have any jobs available as often they will not know until the morning of that day what work they have. If you have transport or are easily able to get to a place of work with little notice then you are most likely to be very successful in finding work using a temping agency.