Accountancy and legal services in the UK make up close to a quarter of all staff employed in the EU in these sectors and correspond to over £15bn of tax income for the UK government – the equivalent of Britain’s police force budget.
It’s all about making the recruitment business efficient. With increased volumes of applicants, some level of automation is needed to keep the ball rolling; however, the most forward-thinking and successful recruiters take the best of the technology and reinvest their time in ‘value-added tasks’ which enable them to make a difference as service providers.
Last month TheCityUK and PWC released a report titled ‘A vision for a transformed, world-leading industry’. The report outlines a scenario in which the GVA of the UK’s Financial Services industry grows by 9% by 2025 from its current size, primarily by maintaining industry competitiveness nationally and internationally, and by emphasizing innovation in FinServ and FinTech while factoring in the challenges posed by Brexit.
The Tech job market in the UK is vibrant, with constant development in areas such as Big Data, AI, and Cybersecurity leading to projected growth of 18.5% in London-based Tech jobs over the next ten years. So far in 2017 the Tech job market has outperformed the corresponding period from 2016 by 6.5%, when looking at vacancy volumes for IT Professionals across all sectors…
Online marketing continued to be the most popular branch of marketing in 2017, as external reports show. However, an analysis by Marketing Week found that the first quarter of the year had been busier for other marketing channels too, including TV, press and cinema advertising. In the article, Paul Smith from IHS Markit said that while the economic outlook was decidedly gloomy back in 2016…
Following the triggering of Article 50, the general election, and the first round of Brexit talks, the economic outlook for the next few years is beginning to take shape. Pharmaceuticals, one of the key common markets between the UK and the EU, will also be one of those most significantly affected, due to numerous challenges that result from the specifics of the UK-EU relationship.
