Coronavirus has changed everything...

People have lost lives, their loved ones and their jobs.  

But we’re back to where we were... aren’t we?  

I know my business, immersive. is busier than ever as organisations rebuild their teams, looking towards a new future.  

But in reality we’re not back to where we were, all the talk of ‘normality’ is misplaced.

Despite some organisations claiming to have returned to ‘normal’ we want something different but organisations are failing to see that.  That ‘normal’ was not all that for many people and going back to it isn’t what is needed.  It’s deeper than working at home or not, it’a about trust and autonomy, flexibility in what we deliver, what we produce not about being seen in a particular location.

I see this in recruitment like any other sector.

There is a shortage of people BUT wages won't go up.  At the upper levels of in-house recruitment that is not an issue, they were well paid before Covid and remain well paid.  But for those in low paid, volume agency roles nothing has changed.  

Talent is available BUT they won't be hired as they are too old (ask anyone 50+) they are too non-diverse (not every white middle class white male is a misogynistic, homophobic racist).

People may have years of service BUT have become utterly dispensable.

I never really bought into the people who said "this is broken in recruitment or that is broken." 

Recruitment is broken because the industry acts as a monopolistic entity. It competes only on offering a market-grabbing price with a race to the bottom. It devalues work. It devalues its people. It devalues what we are trying to do.

Work and reward are supposed to be connected.  

In today's recruitment industry, they are not.

That's the issue.

So how do we fix it?