Podcasts Culture REC Scale Up Podcast Ep 5 - Recruitment for recovery: How Pertemps kept their lights on during the crisis

Ep 5 - Recruitment for recovery: How Pertemps kept their lights on during the crisis

Published: March 8, 2021, 10:51 a.m.

Featured speaker: Carmen Watson, Chair, Pertemps Network Group

\u201cYoung people and women have been hardest hit by the pandemic, so businesses are really going to have to look at how they can embrace those particular populations and how they can bring them into the workforce of the future\u201d. Carmen Watson, Chair, Pertemps Network Group

COVID-19 certainly has left a lot of casualties in the labour market, but thanks to recruiters, UK productivity is increased by an estimated \xa37.7 billion a year by improved quality of matching.

Carmen joined Neil Carberry to share Pertemps\u2019s journey during the pandemic and how they\u2019ve kept their business moving. There\u2019s plenty of words of wisdom for recruitment business owners of all sizes including how you can enable more diversity and inclusion as an industry, and further drive the UK\u2019s productivity. Tune in to hear:
\u2022Lessons Pertemps has learnt during the pandemic
\u2022How their business adapted to meet client needs
\u2022The role of technology in supporting clients and keeping the business moving
\u2022The role of recruiters in enabling more diversity and inclusion across the industry
\u2022What businesses can do to implement good recruitment practices within their organisations.