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UK Salary Trends 2024: Insights for Recruiters
29 October 2024From sector specific growth to regional wage variations, this update from the ONS provides essential insights for recruiters aiming to stay ahead.
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What Is Identity Verification Technology (IDVT) and Why It Matters for Staffing Agencies, Consultancies, and Lettings Agents
11 September 2024Learn how Identity Verification Technology (IDVT) can streamline compliance for staffing agencies, consultancies, and lettings agents by enabling secure, mobile-based ID checks. Discover the legal requirements and explore how Zipwire Collect offers a tamper-proof, secure solution for document verification and storage.
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UK labor market shows mixed signals: unemployment falls, but economic inactivity rises. Job growth slows, vacancies decline, and wage growth outpaces inflation.
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The UK Office for National Statistics (ONS) has released its latest labour market overview for August 2024, providing valuable insights for employment agencies and recruiters.
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New ONS data reveals significant UK skill mismatches, highlighting underutilized talent and regional disparities.
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Navigating the UK's Right to Rent (RTR) requirements can be complex and time-consuming for landlords and letting agencies. Zipwire Collect offers a streamlined solution, leveraging advanced features like conditional logic, nested packs, and customizable document settings to simplify the process. Discover how Zipwire Collect can ensure compliance, reduce errors, and save you time, making RTR checks easier and more efficient than ever.
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Get ready to revolutionize professional credentials with blockchain technology. In "Cleared for Takeoff: Blockchain and the Future of Professional Credentials," we explore how blockchain is transforming the way skills and experience are verified—securely, transparently, and efficiently. Say goodbye to paper records and manual checks; it's time to elevate credentialing to new heights. Buckle up for a journey into the future of professional verification!
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What is IDVT and how can I use it?
01 July 2024Learn how Identity Document Validation Technology (IDVT) is transforming hiring processes in the UK and beyond. Discover how IDVT ensures secure and swift identity verification using ID photos and selfies. Perfect for remote hiring, banking, and more. Get started with IDVT and streamline your verification process today!
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“it's a signal that your back office might be a chaotic mess of Outlook emails and attachments”
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Discover how Zipwire is leveraging the Ethereum Attestation Service to revolutionize identity verification. By integrating blockchain technology, we're creating a future where trust is verifiable, transparent, and secure. Learn more about our innovative approach and the potential of Merkle Trees for selective information disclosure.
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Failing to properly verify that your employees can legally work in the UK can devastate your business with severe civil penalties. But conducting compliant right to work checks doesn't have to be daunting. Follow our comprehensive guide to understand the documentation requirements, recording procedures, and statutory excuse rules step-by-step. Implement bulletproof processes to protect your organization while staying firmly within the law.
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Announcing Zipwire Collect
13 June 2024Imagine a world where crucial data is gathered, important documents collected, the sender is verififed, quickly and securely while records are updated. That's the power of Zipwire Collect.
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The job market is feeling the squeeze as job openings in the U.S. dipped to 8.1 million in April 2024—the lowest since February 2021. With hires and separations remaining flat and specific sectors either shedding or gaining positions, what does this mean for recruiters and staffing agencies? Dive into the details and see how economic tightening and high interest rates are shaping the job landscape.
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UK employment cooled in early 2024 as economic conditions remained challenging, with unemployment and inactivity rising. However, wage growth outpaced inflation, providing relief to workers dealing with high living costs.
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The latest job market data is in! Find out how job openings, hires, and separations fared in March 2024 and what it could mean for employers and job seekers.
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New ONS data reveals vacancies in the UK fell for the 21st straight quarter as the labour market contends with mixed employment and wage trends. Explore the key insights.
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Unlock the insights into the UK's human capital stock, a measure of the nation's acquired skills and knowledge. This comprehensive report delves into lifetime earnings, regional disparities, and the evolving dynamics shaping the nation's earning potential, offering a compelling narrative of growth, challenges, and opportunities.
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Despite countless transformative technologies threatening to upend traditional finance, banks consistently undermine their own evolution by shackling innovation within archaic processes and power structures. Will this deeply rooted pattern of institutional inertia doom them as blockchain's decentralizing disruption looms?
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The NFIB Small Business Optimism Index for February 2024 revealed that small business owners are grappling with labor challenges, including hiring difficulties, labor quality concerns, and rising compensation costs, amid persistent inflationary pressures.
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UK Earnings Growth Cools But Remains Elevated
12 March 2024Earnings growth across the UK economy moderated but remained elevated in early 2024, according to the latest Office for National Statistics data. We analyze the figures on pay raises across sectors, the inflation-adjusted real wage growth, and implications for inflationary pressures going forward.
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The "Great Resignation" Is So Over - U.S. Data
06 March 2024Thinking about quitting your job to become a "lifestyle resignationist"? The data says it might not be the best time. The Great Resignation might be over.
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Bloatonomics - How Many Hands Make Much Work
18 January 2024"This was the most stark and absurd self-sustaining economy of busywork I'd ever seen. It taught me how systems of people create work for each other, and that to those people in that system, it's indistinguishable from real productivity." Discover the dynamics of overstaffing and "fake work".
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