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Following several months of plateauing applications, recruiters everywhere will be breathing a sigh of relief that the WaveTrackR September 2022 Recruitment Trends Report shows that they are finally increasing.

- More than half of the workforce feel they are underpaid as huge support has emerged for employers to intervene to ease the cost of living crisis.

This report shows the hiring activity rates due to the economy and is compiled by collecting primary data through survey responses from recruitment agencies and workers. Here we will discuss and break down their findings.

With UK homeowners warned by the bank of England to expect “significant” increase in interest rates, in response to Kwasi Kwarteng’s tax-cutting mini-budget last week and the Prime Minister insisting the plans are ‘right’, half of the country's professionals are so concerned they’re intending to look for a new job as a direct result.

The number of active job adverts across the UK has been cooling-off since the end of July.

Slow, unresponsive processes more likely to cause application abandonment than salary or benefits concerns, reveals new survey

UK businesses are currently experiencing an incredibly challenging period.

Nealy two-thirds (64%) of UK business decision-makers say that they're experiencing more employees asking for pay rises more frequently as a result of the hike in living costs, according to new research by Applaud, the leading employee experience (EX) platform.

Although RPI remained unchanged at 12.3% and the CPI fell marginally from 10.1% to 9.9% in August, this alone is not enough to close the gap between pay and inflation.

The UK Net Employment Outlook has fallen to +25% for Q4, a decline of eight percentage-points on Q3, and a decrease of six percentage-points year-on-year according to the latest ManpowerGroup Employment Outlook Survey (MEOS).