How to secure the best talent in today’s candidate-driven market
Demand for workers in today’s economy has surpassed pre-pandemic levels while staff availability is falling at a record pace. In fact, new research from KPMG and the Recruitment Employment Federation has shown that the current shift towards a candidate-driven market has triggered the highest increase in starting salaries in 24 years. A recent…
View Post“Do we only work with Australasians – no!”
Australasian Recruitment Company was first established in London primarily to help people from the Australian and New Zealand communities to find temporary roles. But Brits now make up the largest chunk of our candidate base! We first formed back in 2003, setting up our HQ in London to focus primarily…
View PostHow to hire an Executive Assistant
“Executive Assistant” can have vastly different meanings between organisations and as such, is one of the most challenging types of roles to hire. EAs occupy the space somewhere – and everywhere in- between admin assistant and strategic partner, providing not just administrative support but on-the-ground intel to their executive to…
View PostMind the Skills Gap: If you’re not hiring from overseas you could be missing out on big benefits
The advent of Brexit has led to huge talent shortages in the UK workforce. Coupled with being in the wake of a global pandemic that’s left many employees clinging to existing jobs, there has been a significant knock-on effect on hiring in the UK and many organisations are struggling to…
View PostIn the post-pandemic era of flexible working, virtual assistants and digitisation of administrative tasks, is your hiring strategy as future-proof as it can be? It isn’t new news that remote working and the hybrid model has shifted how leaders and coworkers connect and do business: as early as 2017 a…
View PostIs now the best time for Australians and New Zealanders to work in the UK?
What a rollercoaster the past 18 months has been. Not just in the UK but all around the world, with Covid turning all of our working patterns and travel plans upside down. What’s undergone a real 360 within this time, however, is the UK jobs market. In April 2020,…
View PostAs a leading recruitment agency in London, it is hard to recall a time when the market has been so positive for job seekers! Employers are constantly on the hunt for talented business support professionals with the skills and experience they need which means candidates have a lot of choice…
View PostWorking Rights in the UK – Important Changes
There are some important changes approaching around working rights in the UK which employers will need to be aware of. The most widely publicised of these is the approach of the EU Settlement Scheme deadline on 30 June, but employers also need to be aware of the upcoming return of…
View PostIt is hard to recall a time as a leading recruitment agency in London when the market has been so positive for job seekers! We have lived through a thoroughly bizarre time where we experienced the sharpest and deepest recession in over 300 years, and where we learned the world…
View PostCould You Be Due Some Tax Back?
While we have excitingly been seeing the job market pick up in the first half of 2021, and we expect this trend to continue as the UK makes it way out of restrictions, one of the sad realities of the pandemic was people ending up out of work or on…
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