Ep 5 - Recruitment for recovery: How Pertemps kept their lights on during the crisis - a podcast by Recruitment & Employment Confederation

Featured speaker: Carmen Watson, Chair, Pertemps Network Group

“Young people and women have been hardest hit by the pandemic, so businesses are really going to have to look at how they can embrace those particular populations and how they can bring them into the workforce of the future”. Carmen Watson, Chair, Pertemps Network Group

COVID-19 certainly has left a lot of casualties in the labour market, but thanks to recruiters, UK productivity is increased by an estimated £7.7 billion a year by improved quality of matching.

Carmen joined Neil Carberry to share Pertemps’s journey during the pandemic and how they’ve kept their business moving. There’s plenty of words of wisdom for recruitment business owners of all sizes including how you can enable more diversity and inclusion as an industry, and further drive the UK’s productivity. Tune in to hear:
• Lessons Pertemps has learnt during the pandemic
• How their business adapted to meet client needs
• The role of technology in supporting clients and keeping the business moving
• The role of recruiters in enabling more diversity and inclusion across the industry
• What businesses can do to implement good recruitment practices within their organisations.

Further episodes of REC Podcasts

Further podcasts by Recruitment & Employment Confederation

Website of Recruitment & Employment Confederation