To ask, if you work in recruitment, what is the job market currently like?

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I'm starting my job search soon and am just curious what the job market is currently like. Obviously it varies in different sectors but I'm just curious what it's like in your sector.

I work in recruitment in the construction industry (mainly focused on Quantity Surveying/ project management) and it's absolutely crazy at the moment. So many roles to fill!

I work in construction I'm headhunted daily.

It's definitely a candidate's market!

Is this the case across the board? I know lower end jobs are having a terrible time recruiting and support staff roles in schools are practically impossible to fill, but I still know several 2021 graduates working in minimum wage hospitality jibs because they haven't been able to find "proper" graduate work.

What about established professionals?

School support jobs (admin, cleaners, caretakers, kitchen and dining staff, teaching assistants) are numerous and we are struggling to fill posts.

We also have the most headteacher vacancies than normal. Some filled, some advertised but too few applicants to shortlist. These will be infilled for Sept, with interim arrangements having to be made, until substantive headteachers can be found.

I work in a professional role and we’ve really struggled to recruit lately

We're struggling to fill engineering (machine maintenance technicians). The only candidates coming in are either expecting huge salaries or unwilling to work shifts. Quite a lot are on temporary work visas from outside Europe.

I work in finance and get messages from recruiters several times a week, it's mental (and I've just changed jobs, so being head hunted worked!!).

I'm in a professional sector and we are really struggling to recruit ... Candidates want are demanding much higher salaries (or quality of candidates is much lower) and rightly so, wage growth has been suppressed in the UK for too long the adjustment has been waiting to happen

I’m in tech and honestly I didn’t not logon to Linkedin it’s absolutely ludicrous the number of headhunting emails. Half of them will nonsense or repeats of the same roles that have been given to different agencies by the same client.

but if 50% of them are rubbish that’s of still a substantial amount of headhunting emails in addition to all the job ads I get sent through as well.
The latest figures from the national office of statistics show that we have the lowest unemployment since records began I think it’s 3.5 at the moment

I'm in tech and also being bombarded daily on linked in. They've also got my personal email address somehow too so also getting emailed daily. One even phoned technical support at the tech company I work for currently and tried to get them to put him through to me!

As others have said tho, I think the quantity has gone up but the quality is down. Some are real opps that I would consider if I was looking but a lot of them are young or foreign recruiters saturation bombing. I did get my current job a few years ago via LinkedIn headhunting.

Yes it’s hard to recruit at the moment. Across a lot of sectors from what I’m hearing

Not a recruiter, but I work in Financial Services and we are struggling to fill roles. I know other firms are too.

I'm a buyer in the construction industry.

I'm contacted most weeks via LinkedIn about roles.

The key thing here though is the reason we are struggling to recruit is the salaries are not high enough. My employer and many others are attempting to offer up the same salary for a role as they were offering 24 months ago.... They don't seem to understand that's offering a pay cut!!!! Or simply a comparatively lower salary than 2 years ago, so the quality of candidates will be lower too....except then they complain they can't get 5+ years experience when they are offering not much more than minimum wage....

I work in Comms and we're having a nightmare trying to recruit to roles that two years ago, we would have had multiple good candidates for. I spoke to a recruitment consultant last week who said it's a candidates market at the moment. People can afford to be picky, we've had applicants pull out of interviews because they want more money than we can offer or they want to work 5 days over 4. We try and be as flexible as possible, but 5 days over 4 just doesn't work for us.

It’s absolutely flying in banking. Loads of banks looking to expand.

Education. It's a nightmare at all levels (from the recruiters pov!) especially because we don't have the money to increase salaries.

On a personal level, even my neglected LinkedIn profile has had pro-active recruitment approaches for the first time in my career.

My workplace and our industry is extremely short of skilled candidates and struggling to fill roles.

I do accounts and I've been contacted a lot this year, but none as good as the salary I'm on.

I work for a food brand and it feels like it’s the opposite to what others are saying up thread. Lots of candidates around so companies are being choosy.

@simoncowellsdog DH is a tradesman but trying to get into construction management, it is proving to be very difficult, every employer seems to want years of managerial experience. He’s been looking for ages…
have you got any tips please? He obviously wants to get paid bit more than trainee graduates with no experience at all…

sorry to hijack the thread OP 😀

I work in accounts and keep receiving lots of emails with vacancies but the salaries seem to be the same as 2 years ago…

Work in tech sector and am recruiting. We are going to pay well above market rates, but struggling to fill the role.

The quality of candidates is poor, but want the world.

And therefore public sector jobs will remain vacant. Tory government won’t be making any big wage increases to attract to education, health, police etc.