Uncertainty is the new Certainty.

Haven’t you heard?

Remember the giddy heights of January when anything was possible, LinkedIn and Instagram were full of pictures of sparkly new 2020 diaries. Now...not so much.

The conventional doesn’t exist for the majority of businesses at the moment, and it looks like for those in the recruitment industry, exceptional is the only way forward.

When we emerge from this, the candidate led market will likely be no more (with some industries still being the same - healthcare for instance), switching to a time where jobs will be at a premium with a huge number of unemployed people out there hungry to get back to work.

This will lead to an extremely competitive market across a number of sectors. It’s been a time of absolute turbulence and from that will come opportunity, opportunity to better yourself in ways you want to, to realign goals, to put yourself in the path you want to be on.

Yes, mistakes have been made in the approach of many recruiters and this will need to be immediately rectified - survival is dependent on it. The posts that pop up on LinkedIn every now and again with people disgruntled about lack of communication should be no more, as should have been the case anyway and few will admit to having done this, but so many candidates can’t all be wrong, so this will need to be one of the first things to change.

I’ve got mistakes I’ve made and they’ll be put right - I’m certain of that much. A great many will do the same and that can only be a good thing if the recruitment industry is to survive, let alone thrive. It needs to be transparent, truly valuable and a great many other things.

Let me know what you think needs to happen either in the comments or drop me a message on here.

Stay safe.