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Sun, sea and sangria?
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Autumn recruitment needs known?
Labour is getting very tight and it won’t get easier. |
Welcome to the Acorn Recruitment South West monthly newsletter.
This month is another special, reporting on a recruitment drive that took place in Poland at the end of June to boost the numbers of available labour.
It gives you a chance to gain exposure to national advertising by advising us of any labour needs.
It is also the announcement of another recruitment drive to take place in late September. Please read on.
Chris Slay, Director
Exchange rates
Graph: www.exchange-rates.org
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This graph shows historical exchange rates between the Polish Zloty (PLN) and the
British Pound (GBP)
between 14/1/2008
and 12/7/2008
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More bad news, the weak £ continues to reduce the attractiveness of the UK in the global village for labour.
Example: Looking for Welders and able to offer £9 an hour for non-English speakers, but they are going to the Netherlands at £13 an hour and with English get
free accommodation.
"Skills Provision" - Announcement of a new service from Acorn Recruitment South West
We are getting an increased number of enquiries for higher level jobs with specific skill requirements. This calls for a more detailed, analytical and longer term approach to finding these skills from abroad as there is still a skills shortage in many industries in this country. Skills Provision will only be available for jobs paying £30,000 pa or the hourly equivalent. Read more >
Click here to see our latest list of "VIP employees"
This list is pretty thin this month, If you have any interest
please call us on 07977 131 389 or email here |
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Basically everybody, bar three found in Poland on the recent drive will be working in the UK by mid August. This is a curate's egg. Good that existing clients are largely getting what they want, bad as Acorn has very limited stock available for new clients but it is totally consistent with the market and as predicted since the beginning of 2008.
You need to plan ahead more than ever!
State of the temporary labour market
This pool of labour is of the lowest quality and hence lowest price but is populated in the main by those that are unable to get work elsewhere whatever their nationality. The true cost of this type of labour is high. At the best of times, it is inefficient, unreliable and transient as companies try to manage other people’s rejects. It is fine for the odd one or two people but is madness when users rely on it for core labour in times of tightening market conditions.
So what do you do about it?
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Case Study
• Examine your temporary labour use.
• Establish minimum levels of use
• Look to convert these levels into full time staff as soon as possible
• Examine ways of flexing working times. You will find Eastern European staff more flexible and willing to work longer hours if required , probably a typical 10-15% buffer here.
Plan ahead.
When labour can be sourced it is now taking longer – 4-6 weeks typically. |
Call us: 07977 131 389 | Email
What’s on our shopping list?
It has been an extraordinary 4 weeks since the last newsletter with a huge increase in demand across the board. To give you an idea of the general skills that are in demand below is an extract from a letter sent to all existing staff on the 11th July 2008
CALLING ALL ENGLISH SPEAKING POLES
JOBS AVAILABLE THROUGHOUT THE UK
GO TO WEBSITE FOR FULL DESCRIPTION AND APPLICATION PROCEDURES |
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