The updates from the recruitment specialists this week on prospects for employment in the UK have been decidedly mixed. Robert Walters was positive enough, with strength in the areas of technology and the law, though they are a smaller operator.
Pagegroup’s figures on Wednesday were poor, a 7.6 per cent fall in income from the UK reflecting uncertainty among employers in the run-up to Brexit. Now Hays, the biggest recruiter, has come in with a 1 per cent rise in the UK in the first three months of its financial year to the end of September, with a decent 4 per cent rise in the private sector and a 9 per cent fall in the public sector, in part driven by changes in tax