2019 Recruiting Forecast | Recruitment News UK

With the start of the new year, many recruiters will be asking whether the rapid expansion of 2017 and 2018 can repeated for a third consecutive year. However, the British Chamber of Commerce (BCC) suggests that productivity squeeze in other sectors could put a dampener on clients' hiring targets over the next twelve months.

• Recruiting in 2019 could find agencies coming to terms with clients' dwindling budgets. As sluggish productivity and economic slowdown affects multiple sectors, recruitment worries rise to the top of businesses' lists of concerns for the year ahead. Read what the British Chamber of Commerce has to say about your prospects in 2019.

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• Army recruitment is in trouble. Intake is no longer keeping pace with the numbers leaving the forces - at a time when the army is supposed to be expanding. A new campaign targeting the social media and selfie generation of young professionals aims to reverse that trend.

Read our first UK recruitment news round-up of the new year.