Recruiter editor highlights new landscape of recruitment in podcast with REC CEO

The shattering outbreak of Covid-19 has created a landscape of unexpected hurdles and unseen holes for the UK’s recruitment industry at a time when the sector was enjoying great prosperity overall.

However, the challenge to reset workplace thinking and reshape businesses offers great opportunity for recruiters, agreed Recruiter editor DeeDee Doke and Neil Carberry, CEO of the Recruitment & Employment Confederation, in a recorded conversation this week (above).

The podcast provides Carberry and Doke’s exploration of the here and now of the sector and the way forward. It is available now for listening here.

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