What causes low quality recruitment?

The skills shortage, Brexit, the weakening pound – it is all sounding rather bleak. For many, the constant diagnoses of the UK's macro-scale problems are disheartening, especially as little salve is offered.

With desperate times driving desperate measures, more businesses are turning to hiring who they can rather than who they want. This practice is leading to a high churn rate and high recruitment costs.

In fact, according to the survey, conducted by The Open University, 90% of employers revealed that they had faced difficulties recruiting workers with the relevant skills in the last 12 months. What’s worse, making the wrong hire can cost a business more than £132,000. The accumulative costs involved in bad recruitment include money wasted on training, lost productivity, and increased staff turnover, according to the Recruitment & Employment Confederation (REC).

To look for a solution, Recruitment Grapevine spoke to Ben Brett, Board Growth Adviser at Recruit4vets, about the trends affecting the industry at present, which could be reducing the calibre of candidates walking through firms’ doors.