We Will Champion Recruiters’ Power to Transform Lives - REC

 

The Recruitment and Employment Confederation (REC) is launching a new ‘rallying cry’ to promote the value of the recruitment profession. Under the strapline ‘Jobs transform lives’, the professional body for recruitment in the UK will take a proactive approach to explaining the positive impact that recruiters have on businesses, individuals and the labour market as a whole.

 

Finding a job that’s right for them was ranked the most important life decision by British adults surveyed by YouGov on behalf of the REC for this initiative, confirming the vital role recruiters play in empowering people to make important choices about their lives.

 

REC chief executive Kevin Green says:

 

“This is a very exciting time for recruitment. It's easy to be blasé about the work our industry does, but every day recruiters change lives and make businesses more successful by helping them secure the people they need. These are things the REC wants to shout about. Our role is to promote all that's good about our profession and to champion the value recruiters deliver.

 

“Recruiters have the power to create opportunities for success for people, businesses and the economy. At the REC we’re upping our game to show government, the business community and the wider public the positive impact our industry makes.

 

“Our work to deliver this message is going to be of real value to our members. It will help to raise the profile of the profession. More clients and stakeholders will take the impact of our members’ work seriously, and will recognise the REC logo as a mark of quality and professionalism.”    

 

The REC is releasing six video case studies with people explaining how a new job helped to transform their lives, showcasing the important role that recruiters played in making this a reality. These stories will also feature for ten weeks on a special section of the Daily Telegraph website, taking the positive message about recruiters to a national audience.

 

The REC is also publishing the results of a YouGov survey which reveals how important jobs are to people. Given a list of ten important life decisions, respondents were asked to select the most important. ‘What to do as a job’ was the most popular choice, with votes from more than three quarters (77 per cent) of respondents, beating ‘when to start a family’ (73 per cent), ‘where to live’ (64 per cent), ‘whether to enter into marriage or a civil partnership’ (57 per cent), ‘who their friends are’ (37 per cent) and ‘which political party to support’ (28 per cent).

 

For more information about the Jobs transform lives initiative, visit www.rec.uk.com/transform

 

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Notes to editors:

 

1. All figures, unless otherwise stated, are from YouGov Plc. Total sample size was 2,040 adults. Fieldwork was undertaken between 26^th - 27^th August 2015. The survey was carried out online. The figures have been weighted and are representative of all GB adults (aged 18+). Respondents were asked three questions:

 

Q1. Which, if any, of the following do you think are **important** life decisions that people generally have to make? (Please select all that apply)

 

What to do as a job	77%
When to start a family	73%
Choosing what subjects to study at school/ college/ university	65%
Where to live (i.e. the town or area)	64%
Choosing whether or not to make a relationship “official” (e.g. marriage, civil partnership etc.)	57%
Choosing to give something up (e.g. smoking, drinking etc.)	44%
Who their friends are	37%
Which political party to support	28%
Choosing to change their diet (e.g. become vegetarian or vegan, consume less sugar etc.)	26%
What clothes to wear each day	6%
Don’t know	3%
None of these	2%

 

Q2. Which, if any, of the following, factors do you think would be **important** to you when choosing a job? (Please select all that apply)

 

Salary and benefits	81%
Doing something I enjoy/ type of work	80%
Work/ life balance	68%
Location (i.e. town or area)	62%
Opportunities for progression	53%
The commute	52%
Values of the organisation	38%
My colleagues	35%
Knowing the job will challenge me	33%
Office culture	21%
None of these	2%
Don’t know	2%

 

Q3. Thinking about your current job…Which, if any, of the following has your current job enabled you to do? (Please select all that apply)

 

Make new friends	43%
Develop my skillset	42%
Work flexible hours	39%
Be independent	28%
Take overseas holidays	20%
Build a professional network	20%
Be creative	18%
Pursue my passion	17%
None of these	15%
Move to a better location	9%
Start a family	7%