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Are you giving yourself enough choice when recruiting?
Are you giving yourself enough choice when recruiting?With the skill shortage at its worst since 1997, staff availability having reduced at its quickest rate in history and with over 1 million vacancies open across the UK economy currently (a 20-year high) the knock effect ha...
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Bounce back with ATA Contractors
Bounce back with ATA Recruitment ContractorsAccording to a report compiled by REC and KPMG, the UK is facing the worst staff shortages since the late 1990s. Whilst this is across several industries, it is hitting the manufacturing and engineering sectors particularly hard. Th...
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Post Pandemic Recruitment Challenges
Post Pandemic Recruitment Challenges What a difference a year makes! At the height of the pandemic in 2020, the majority of companies had stopped all recruitment and candidate availability was the through the roof, primarily due to furlough and redundancies. Fast forward ...
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Has the Pandemic created a Perfect Storm for hiring Engineers?
If anyone had asked me two years ago what I thought the biggest threat to recruitment was within the Engineering Sector, I would have said Brexit…. how wrong I was. The Pandemic has thrown the plans of every business to the wind and left the hiring market in a position not se...
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IR35 - What Happens Now?
Now that the changes to the off-payroll legislation have come into force, how have businesses and contractors been affected and what will this do to the contract and interim market in the future?There was a great deal of concern about how companies would deal with the change...
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Working in Recruitment in the Engineering Sector
Recruitment is one of the fastest growing professional sectors at present. While this means there is no shortage of opportunities offered, it does mean that when embarking on a career in recruitment, it can be difficult to decide on which sector in the right sector for you ...
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Why Recruitment?
I speak to a lot of people daily who are not sure if a role in recruitment is right for them. Most of these people have either had a bad experience in a recruitment/sales role themselves or know someone else in their network who has. However, the sector has progressed enormou...
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Sales to Recruitment: Why You Should Make the Move
4 reasons you should move from a traditional sales role to a role in recruitment If you are a successful salesperson with a strong track record, it is highly likely you have been contacted about embarking on a recruitment career. There is a very simple reason for this; salesp...
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Starting a new job during a pandemic
Starting a new job is a daunting prospect at the best of times. Factor in the all the changes and adaptations to working life that have been implemented over the past 12 months and it is unsurprising that we are feeling cautions about making a move. Without the support, en...
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Stress Awareness Month 2021
April marks the start of Stress Awareness Month 2021, and the theme this year is ‘Regaining Connectivity, Certainty and Control’.Stress Awareness Month raises awareness of stress and the way in which it is damaging the health of people across the globe. High levels of stress ...
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ATA Recruitment continue to support Rainbows in 2021
ATA Recruitment have chosen to support local charity Rainbows Hospice for Children and Young People for the 5th year running Rainbows provides specialist respite, palliative and end of life care to children and young people with life limiting or life-threatening conditions an...
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How To Make A Great First Impression On A Recruiter
How to make a great first impression on a recruiterIn my role as Talent Acquisition Manager and after years of working within the recruitment sector, I have seen a lot of job applications! I never want to miss out on a potentially fantastic candidate, so I always ensure I r...
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Annual Regional Maintenance Salary Report 2020
ATA Recruitment's Annual Regional Maintenance Salary Report 2020 is available to downloadWith over 50 years experience in the provision of recruitment solutions for manufacturing and engineering, ATA Recruitment have established themselves as market leaders. Not only do we p...
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IR35: Important Information for End Hirers
Following the Chancellor's budget announcement, we must now assume that the IR35 reforms in the private sector will continue to go ahead as planned on 6th April 2021, and end hirers need to ensure they are all fully aware of how their responsibilities are changing.What is ...
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Annual Executive Engineering Salary Report 2020
The ATA Recruitment's Annual Executive Engineering Salary Report 2020 is available to downloadWith the challenges of COVID-19, Brexit and IR35 still looming, Executive Search and Senior Leadership roles continue to play a key part in business strategies. Companies have taken...
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Annual Contractor Rates Report 2020
The ATA Annual Contractor Rates Report 2020 is now available to downloadThe past 12 months have been an unpredictable time for employers and candidates alike. Many employers have reassessed their recruitment strategies, as the effects of COVID-19, mass furlough and multiple l...
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Annual Engineering Salary Report 2020
Now in it's 4th year, ATA Recruitment's Annual Engineering Salary Report 2020 is available to downloadThe past 12 months have been an unpredictable time for employers and candidates alike. Many employers have reassessed their recruitment strategies, as the effects of COVID-19...
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Candidate Survey 2020 - A New Landscape in Recruitment
2020 has been a challenging year for both employers and employees alike Many companies have been faced with the unenviable task of furloughing members of their staff or making redundancies in an effort to navigate these choppy economic waters. Whilst doing so, how many employ...
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The risks behind recruiting during Covid-19
As we entered 2020 the manufacturing industry was experiencing a marketplace with limited candidates and a widening skills gap. Our experts saw overwhelming evidence that most companies’ reaction was to increase salaries as their main tactic to incentivise people to stay or t...
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