Back to Basics

Recently I wrote about the current property downturn and how it was affecting recruitment in our sector. Well I'm in the UK at the moment and due to the financial crisis and the abatement of inter bank lending, the property market has slowed considerably.

I think property recruiters will now find out what the real world is like! I was talking to a recruiter from a competitor of ours and he said that their property team were now realising they have had it too easy over the last few years. A candidate driven market has now returned to a client driven market in a very very short space of time. I honestly believe that this is just what property and construction recruitment needs. Recruiters can now return to the basic tasks of sourcing positions and presening clients with a selection of relevant candidates.

Rather than clammering over the same candidates who, due to being touted by various recruiters and companies, get delusions of grandeur and think they are worth way way more than what they are. There needs to be a return to stability, its all been too mad and too many clients have been frustrated by the process. The recruitment industry has been tarnished by the madness!

We can now focus on the best candidates for our clients and get back to some basic recruiting.