
Why are big companies going to the wall?

Now, I am sure these companies believe that it is necessary to have an Olympic running track’s worth of hurdles for candidates to jump, but, for me, its just another example of the level of bureaucracy and red tape that can bog down businesses.And one of these little issues appears to be recruitment. According to job and recruiting business Glassdoor, job seekers in the UK spend, on average, 27 days in an interview process when applying for a job.
Being slow with recruitment and onboarding
The employment climate
It may be down to the fact that the pool of available workers is a lot smaller than it was due to the current levels of unemployment. The most recent figures out this month revealed that the UK employment rate was the joint-highest on record since comparable records begin in 1971.I believe in quick reactions
All of this is preventing these monolithic companies from reacting quickly to changing market dynamics or acting on new strategies. From my experience, the exact opposite has been key to the success of my business. We have been expanding rapidly in recent years, most notably through my decision to be more than just plumbers and diversify into a wider range of home services with the same levels of quality and expertise. That’s meant a very rapid, but thorough, recruitment process and anyone who follows Pimlico on social media will see posts popping up daily introducing the latest additions to our workforce of engineers and support staff.Indecision can be risky
This has come from, excuse the pun, employing a very efficient and focused recruitment programme that has been honed and put into practice by my highly capable and dedicated team of in-house recruiters. I am sure that this will be the case in SMEs up and down the country and further demonstrates the importance of the millions of UK entrepreneurial private businesses to the economy and their ability to not let the grass grow under their feet by making decisions and quickly acting on them.Share this story