In December 2022 the UK had 1.3m registered as unemployed and the government was under enormous pressure from businesses to provide support to families to help to get parents back into the workplace, unfortunately, none of the initiatives are available until after April 2024, when the first layer of support will be offered to eligible … Continued
Axiom Personnel work closely with construction clients right across the country and we are talking to the trades on a daily basis. We all understand the issues affecting recruitment for construction sites and we work closely with our construction customers keeping a robust and growing database of potential candidates across all trades & labour, this … Continued
We are excited to announce the new role of Operations Manager here at Axiom and we are thrilled that our long-term Team member Team Katie Neal has accepted this position. Katie joined us in 2013 and has spent 10 years working part-time hours around her growing family. Katie’s daughter is now 17 and studying A’ … Continued
In March 2023, Adzuna analysed more than 267,000 CV’s on its UK database, and the situation is getting worse, with candidates not checking the content, grammar or spelling. There were almost 100,000 CV’s with over 5 errors! Some of the headline mistakes were a simple spelling mistake, we always advise our candidates to at least … Continued
This week we have seen the launch of the Electric Revolution Skills Hub at a 2 day conference in Birmingham, until recently I hadn’t heard about the PEMD (Power Electronic Machines and Drives) community, but with offshore wind growing on the Essex/London coast line, a new manufacturing plant for hydrogen batteries on our doorstop, I … Continued
Back in March 2019, as we entered into the Pandemic, the Office for National Statistics reported that 1.5 million jobs could be lost to automation, that’s 7.4% of the workforce that could find their existing jobs automated. The figures suggest that women, young people and part time workers are likely to be the most affected … Continued
Job scams are on the rise with seasonal scams up by 88% in 2020 in comparison to 2019, these are the most up-to-date numbers released by the Disclosure and Barring Government Department, who are working in collaboration with JobsAware to help job seekers become more aware of the signs of a scam advert. The scammers … Continued
Liam recently placed an engineering candidate in a Project Management role. It was for a local Romford business and the candidate left a google review, totally unsolicited! I don’t know about anyone else, but getting reviews can be really challenging, especially in our business, when our clients don’t want to be named as they want … Continued
There has been so much speculation over recent weeks around today’s budget and how it will or will not affect the UK economic forecast. I almost want to duck, the last time we had the mini-budget back in September, we had two resignations, the then Prime Minister and the Chancellor and the financial markets went … Continued
Here are a few interesting stats to support what an incredible contribution working women make to the UK economy. There are 15.66 million working women in the UK today aged 16 and over and 1.7 million up to 10 years earlier. Women are still more likely to work part-time than men, although this is down … Continued