This blog was originally posted on our sister site Getwork. Pandemic unemployment levels were a gendered problem. Women were disproportionately affected by job loss, causing a “she-cession”. A lot of this can be attributed to two key factors. Firstly, women disproportionality shoulder caring responsibilities (even worse for BIPOC women). Then, the employment sectors that women workers Continued »
This blog was originally posted on our sister site Getwork. We’ve all become familiar with remote interviewing processes over recent years, but lots of companies, particularly in technology and finance, are disconnecting even further from candidates with one-way interviews. These are an opportunity for an employer to set questions that shortlisted candidates answer on video, without Continued »
After Tata Steel closed in Port Talbot, other local labour markets dominated by singular employers or industries may also be vulnerable, write Daniel Muir, Research Economist at IES and Nick Litsardopoulos, Research Economist at IES Last month, it was announced that Tata Steel would be closing its blast furnaces in Port Talbot. This sparked discussion about the Continued »
With the cost of living continuing to bite hard, we’re all looking for ways to boost our earnings or to make our job hunt as easy as possible. Whether it’s looking for the best-paid role or jobs in high demand, here’s what you need to know about this year’s job market. Each year, we look Continued »
This blog was originally posted on our sister site Getwork. Hiring doesn’t seem to be getting any easier, in fact, hiring has been challenging since well before the pandemic and we’re betting that that won’t change. So what’s the solution? Should we continue to hire to fulfil a role? Or should we be more agile and Continued »
This blog was originally posted on our sister site Getwork. How do you spruce up your resume when you don’t have access to a computer? How do you prepare for an interview when you’re homeless? How do you compete with seemingly ideal candidates when your experience is way less than perfect? For those who are digitally Continued »
This blog was originally posted on our sister site Getwork. One minute they’re there, the next minute they’re not. No explanation; they just vanished. Is this the opening scene of a scary movie? No, it’s ghosting, a term that started in the dating world. It means to suddenly cut off all communication and forms of contact. Continued »
No one likes paying rent. Some might even compare paying rent to helping out your landlord on their mortgage or growing property portfolio. It’s dead money, but we all need a roof over our heads. In a quest to identify the best and worst value cities to live and work in, we recently analysed our Continued »
In a recent update to Adzuna’s intelligence portal, our proprietary dashboard that displays a wide range of aggregate data based on all the vacancy listings we hold on our site, we introduced the Employer Intelligence feature. This allows users to examine data about specific employers and their vacancies, providing valuable insights on the labour demanded Continued »