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The Government’s ambition to transition the UK to a ‘high wage, high skill’ economy that is less reliant on migrant workers will be undermined unless there are short-term interventions on immigration policy to tackle the immediate labour crisis and long-term reforms to skills policy and business support.

Growth in job adverts shows no signs of slowing down. The total number of active job postings in the UK has increased by over 600,000 (36%) since the last week of August, including 235,000 new adverts that were posted online last week.

The top UK tech companies and startups continue to hire at record rates with a 128% increase in jobs on offer since September 2020

The latest survey from the UK’s leading independent job board, CV-Library, reveals that poor interviewer behaviour is stopping job seekers from accepting new roles

CIPD analyses latest gender pay gap data and calls for mandatory narratives with action plans to accompany reporting

The latest quarterly data from CV-Library reveals an increase in UK professionals registering their CV in the most skill-short sectors, whilst applications to those jobs continues to decline.

Could the end of the furlough scheme at the close of September have expedited an influx of candidates into the market?

In the three months to August, business confidence in their ability to hire new staff and make investment decisions remained high at net: +25, according to new Recruitment & Employment Confederation (REC) data. This remains a historically high rate of improvement, though the pace is lower than in the previous rolling quarter.

In the week of 13-19 September, there were 1.90 million active job adverts posted in the UK.

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