A worldwide survey of recruitment trends of more than 14,400 companies
and organisations has shown that the international recruitment market is
showing a healthy levelling.
The Global Snapshot survey, which is carried out by recruitment agency Antal,
regularly seeks the opinions of 14,465 bodies in 47 countries. Their latest
statistics, issued this month, have shown that the number of organisations
looking to shed staff within the next six months has fallen by seven per cent
since their last survey in September, to 16 per cent.
While this figure was accompanied by a dip in active recruitment processes by
companies - falling from 57 per cent in September to 50
per cent now - when considered together, the numbers indicate that the dip in
recruitment activity stems from increased staff retention.
UK companies gave the second highest levels of current active recruitment, with
66 per cent stating that they were looking to hire. This placed it only behind
Luxembourg, with 86 per cent, and immediately ahead of Belgium and France, with
65 and 58 per cent respectively.
The Americas showed the most active recruitment of anywhere in the world. Some
76 per cent of organisations in the USA and Mexico said they were actively
recruiting, while even the lowest placed country in the region - Argentina -
still came back with a relatively high 60 per cent.
Geoff Newman from web recruitment business Recruitment
Genius said, “This is good news as it seems companies have finished downsizing
and are now ready to grow. The World economy is so inter-linked that prosperity
in other countries will benefit the UK.
