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Retail Hiring and Recruitment Trends in the UK Market

Recruitics

million people work in the retail sector in the UK. Approximately 2.9 This large, important economic sector has been facing a tough time in recent years. The industry has been adapting to an unprecedented level of change, with 17,000 high street shops closing in 2022 , 50% higher than closures in 2021.

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3 Essential Recruitment Strategies for Retail Hiring Success

Recruitics

Retail hiring is a significant challenge in today's market.

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Hospitality and Retail: 6 Qualifications To Reconsider When Hiring

Recruitics

Employee recruitment and retention have always been hot topics in high-turnover industries like hospitality and retail. However, the last couple of years has sent these service industries on a wild ride – permanently changing how hospitality and retail organizations attract and retain talent in a very hot job market.

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Retail Recruiting: How To Attract Top Candidates

Recruitics

Hiring in the retail industry can be challenging. Not only do retail companies have to focus on combating the talent shortage, but they also have to fight against high turnover, low retention, application rates dropping, and more. This all gets exacerbated as we enter high-volume hiring season as well.

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4 Recruitment Marketing Strategies for Hiring Veterans

Rally Recruitment Marketing

Companies should make a concerted effort to attract, engage and hire these former service members who can bring so much to the workforce. What does this mean for employers, and particularly for Recruitment Marketing and employer brand practitioners? A veterans careers page helps showcase Dell’s valuable hiring initiative.

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The Top Recruitment Marketing Channels in the Retail Industry

Smartdreamers

In some ways, the retail industry is unlike many others. There is, however, one way in which hiring for retail positions is very similar to hiring in most other industries: finding the right people can be extremely difficult.

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Survey Results: COVID-19 Impact on Hiring

Rally Recruitment Marketing

I’ll also share what we’ve seen Talent Acquisition teams focus on most when it comes to responding to the crisis from a Recruitment Marketing and employer brand perspective. How COVID-19 has impacted hiring. We also had a small contingent of respondents (5%) report that their hiring was actually increasingly significantly.

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