Temps Continue to Benefit As Hiring Intentions Surge – REC
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Eight in ten employers (79 per cent) cited the need to gain ‘short-term access to key strategic skills’ of temporary workers as the reason for this demand. Employers now consider this to be the most important reason for hiring agency staff.
In the latest JobsOutlook survey, 86 per cent of employers also reported their intention to add to their permanent headcount over the next three months.
• Employers say driving and distribution skills are in short supply to fill both permanent (14 per cent) and temporary (10 per cent) roles over the next year.
REC Chief Executive Kevin Green says:
“Our data tells us that the vast majority of the businesses we surveyed are operating at close to full capacity. However a continued lack of workers with the appropriate skills means that temporary staff are increasingly needed to fill areas of skills shortage.
“With capacity tight and employers already aware of candidate shortages, it’s clear that competition for top talent will be stiff. The private sector is clearly paying more to retain talent so the outlook for public sector organisations whose staff have the skills that the private sector requires is going to be testing.
“The challenge for businesses and government is to address the gap between the skills employers want and the skills candidates have. That involves improving careers advice in schools, better vocational education and more opportunities for older workers to reskill.”
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