Technology | Using rec-tech to manage soaring application volumes

Recruiters are instrumental to business recovery – but they face a huge challenge. Here’s how to empower them to overcome it. 

According to the World Economic Forum, UK unemployment is forecasted to hit 9% by the end of lockdown. In the US, 15%. COVID-19 may cost the equivalent of 305 million full-time jobs globally.  

To state the obvious – that’s a lot of people who’ll be looking for jobs soon.

That’s certainly been the case in industries that’ve had to scale-up recruitment, like retail. We handled a 3,900% increase in applications to retail clients in two days recently, and healthcare’s similarly affected.