It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent. It is the one most adaptable to change. ( Charles Darwin) Ann will look at what adaptability means to the recruitment sector in 2022

Why don't they want to come back to the office? Staff retention for the recruitment industry and clients alike is becoming an increasingly difficult challenge. Create the culture that draws your people back. Make the environment an enjoyable and fun place to be and a difficult place to leave. Innovate and inspire a genuine wish to be part of an exciting and winning team. Demonstrate how team building supports and nurtures everyone. Look at new perspectives for the physical and mental well being of your people. Grow into your new market model with enthusiasm by getting the mix right and bring back the buzz!

Are you using recruitment software from multiple vendors? Suffering from a lack of visibility and siloed data? With all the rectech you need to Attract. Manage. Pay from one trusted provider you can eliminate these barriers to growth. In this live demonstration of Access Recruitment’s intuitive feature-rich CRM discover how to easily plug in the solutions you need from our integrated ecosystem. Enhance your performance with a fully integrated website, video interview, automated candidate compliance, mobile worker app, pay and bill, performance dashboards – even HR, on-demand pay, and accounting software.

Nobody owes you their attention. Nobody owes you their irreplaceable time. But you have a job to do. And not only are you competing against your agency peers, your also competing against the ever evolving in-house recruiters. So how do you stand out in a world of notification overload? How do you get people who have their pick of jobs to hear you out? Join Author of The Robot-Proof Recruiter, Katrina Collier, and find out.    

The global recruitment market is forecast to grow by 7% in 2022, are you ready to maximise on this opportunity? It’s time to cut through the noise and keep your eyes on the prize. In this session Wendy will discuss how to focus on the things that make you money, how to align your sales and marketing for maximum impact, and how to measure what’s working and ditch what’s not.

The right Tech - love it or hate it - is essential to having your recruitment business running right. But for a lot of people, Tech can be a nightmare and it's easy to get lost in the products available especially with promises of increased revenue and time saved. In this session I will be showing you properly identify your tech needs, how to audit your existing tech stack and to avoid the pitfalls of making bad tech decisions.

Discover next generation financial technology with Sonovate, a leading invoice finance platform, funding the future world of work in over 40 countries. From onboarding and credit risk to invoice finance and payments, use our APIs to power frictionless, automated services. Get free instant credit decisions, variable advance rates and embedded finance. Scale faster today and fund your growing contingent workforce seamlessly! Sonovate has funded over £2bn, working with thousands of businesses from startups to enterprises. Recently winning the 'FinTech of The Year Award' (FinTech Wales), and 'The Deloitte Talent Tech Scale Up Award' (Talint International/TIARA), Sonovate is here to power the new working world, for contract recruitment agencies, consultancies, labour marketplaces and more. Sonovate provides fast, flexible, tech-driven finance that fits into any business. Be disruptive, be innovative, be better - only using the best technology with Sonovate!

Wondering how to stand out from the crowd? From your candidates' perspective it really isn't rocket science! Your competitors never respond to their applications, never give feedback, never return their calls and never show any interest whatsoever. In comparison clients are treated like royalty! Of course they should be your focus, but unless you are also investing time in your candidates you won't have anything to sell to your clients! Join me as I share the secrets of what your candidates really want from you, things I've learnt from advising them on a daily basis. This session will be packed full of brilliant gems that you can use straight away in your business. And you'll kick yourself that you aren't already doing them!

Building a winning business culture isn’t easy. Leading it is even more difficult. Join Dougie Loan, Odro’s CRO, as he combines his experience of working with hundreds of recruitment brands across the globe with his experience of scaling Odro from a near standing start to over 750 brands in 5 years. With lessons from some of the greatest minds in the industry, Formula 1 and personal failures, this session will give you thought provoking and actionable insights for your business in 2022.

Legal regulations have changed drastically over the last 24 months especially since Brexit. As the world adapts to a large scale shift to remote work, companies are facing new challenges with their workforce. In this session we will examine the complexities around immigration and tax compliance and how HR Managers and Recruiters can be more prepared with hiring decisions in an ever changing landscape of the future.

According to the Office for National Statistics, job vacancies hit 1.1 million between July and September 2021, the highest since records began in 2001. It’s never been more important than now, to provide a seamless experience for your candidates, to ensure you stay ahead of the competition. We’ll talk you through: - How you can execute a positive candidate experience through personalisation - How your recruitment business can shorten its time to hire - How effective tools and services can improve the recruitment process Join us to understand how you can create a flawless experience for your candidates in 2022.

As the pandemic transformed our world, many organisations were fighting for survival – some required a fresh start while others were forced to completely rethink their models, performance, or leadership style. In this session, we will explore the critical skills leaders need to thrive in the new normal, from the power of empathy to the importance of adaptability and how to support your customers and people while staying true to your values.

A compelling brief into a very common issue faced by every agency in our industry - finding the right recruitment technology. Rob share's some interesting experience and insights, along with useful guidance to help you navigate this challenging issue. Choosing a new ATS/CRM used to be a time consuming, inefficient and labour intensive task. Now, you can leverage technology to help with your decision making process and be confident that you're choosing the right tech for your team, to drive your business forward.

What will it take to become a "Sales Champion" and the "Go-To-Person" and leader in your industry in 2022? In this energising and highly entertaining session. Brad will discuss the 'Mindset', 'Skills', 'Behaviour', 'Knowledge' and 'Action' required to win new clients and candidates to dominate your markets in 2022. Be prepared to be engaged and entertained from start to finish!

With over 20-years-experience within the field of software, recruitment and training, our Founder, Tony Lysak, has created the digital platform that we have all been waiting for. Recruiters can use the platform, to recruit, onboard, and train individuals or teams, with no limits on cohort size. Their robust technology has been used to recruit cohorts containing hundreds of candidates at a time, providing clients with a consistent experience for candidates. Today, we present to you the recruitment solution with ALL the applications and tools any recruiter, agency or organisation needs, including application tracking system, assessment builder, online interviews, candidate review process, as well as onboarding, training and Continuing Professional Development.

In this presentation Neil will bring you all the latest market, client and industry intelligence from across the REC's network, and apply it to one big question - what are the skills, investments and market positioning strategies that will help recruiters succeed? Together, we will explore What A Good One Looks Like.

How much has marketing contributed to your revenue? If the answer is “not much” or “dunno”… then come on down to this session! You’ll discover the best marketing tactics and automation tools used by recruitment agencies, which has resulted in winning £140k fees and opening £250k+ accounts. Plus, you’ll find out what marketing should be doing for your business. Stop counting likes, and add some real value. The occasional dog picture has its place, but you’ll get more value from world-class content and top-notch email campaigns.

The world is changing, we are waking up to the impact of inequality and clients are starting to see its impact across their workplaces - the unquestionable lack of difference and diversity. As an industry we have huge amount of power and influence over the UK jobs market, we can turn the dial on underrepresentation by creating an environment where every person is welcome and has the equal opportunity to secure great work. This is our time to really step up and transform what we do. Recruitment businesses who educate their recruiters and give them the tools and confidence to attract underrepresented talent will be in a stronger position to support clients who are genuinely trying to change things. I am going to show you how to start that work.

There's no doubt the pandemic presented personal and professional challenges for most of the planet. However, the one challenge that has been brought on by the accumulation of social and cultural changes, and further exacerbated by the pandemic, is the skills shortage. Today, the talent challenge has become widespread across various industries, making it even more difficult for recruitment industry leaders. Join Akhilesh Pandey as he presents an overview of how to strategize for 2022, including what can be done to mitigate the impact of the talent shortage. Key Points: • Key staffing challenges and priorities • Actual and potential impacts of talent shortage on the recruitment industry • Potential Business model shifts so organisations can adapt and maintain • Resiliency and agility planning to future-proof against uncertainties • How a right outsourcing partner can be a catalyst for your recruitment business growth

We know how important a successful on-boarding program is for both employee and employer. It is key for retention and as it's so difficult to find good quality recruiters at the moment, it's even more vital to get it right! But that's just the start of it - how do you keep your staff engaged and developing their full potential... when it's potentially all online? Join Angela, where she'll share her 15 years of experience of on-boarding new starters and her last 2 years of developing people 100% online.

2022. The year of the Independent Recruiter - The opportunity to grow and scale is there for the taking IF you've the appetite and agility. Jeremy will share his Five Stage Success Roadmap, designed for Independent Recruiters who want to grow. Scaling doesn't have to require growth through headcount. Jeremy has helped independent recruiters develop high levels of revenue (£100k months) without a team. Helping recruiters turn their best month into their definition of average. Jeremy will share practical ideas to provide clarity and direction to make 2022 your best year yet. Remember - your best is always yet to come.

The link between employee feedback, employee engagement and high business performance | The importance of employee feedback and the power it contains - using it to differentiate your agency | Aligning vision, mission and goals | Engaging your leaders | Tackling under-performance | Embracing flexibility and choice | A culture of wellbeing & diversity

Gary will be sharing his experience and knowledge. This seminar will focus on teamwork and motivation, using his experience on and off the pitch to create a successful team. By covering other topics such as leadership, empowerment and culture, this talk will be about the crossover skills everyone should have to succeed, especially leaders.

Let's face it - social media is overwhelming. New social media platforms, new content formats, shifting audiences, and unexpected changes to algorithms create a playing field where it can be hard to know how best to ensure you're getting seen by the right people online. It can also be challenging to understand what good looks like for a recruitment agency making social media work! This session will discuss the changes, trends and updates that are most important to you and your recruitment business. Prepare to leave this session confident in what you need to do next to ensure you stand out on social media in a way that brings you the results you want.

Policy Expert increased their customer's from 800,000 to 1 million customers in 2021, we grew our head count from 250 to over 350 in two locations - one in Milton Keynes and one in Motherwell. The discussion would be around flexing our recruitment strategy to account for virtual interviews, looking at how we redeployed our experienced staff so our new starters can be in the office going through our induction. Talking through the new look at Policy Expert - around 30% of people with less than a years service have never physically met their team mates, how has this impacted our culture and how did we successfully manage to onboard and socialise our teams to keep our overall call centre attrition at below 15%.

1. How did continue our growth trajectory in the middle of a pandemic? - Discussion on what we changed, how we adapted and what changes we implemented to ensure success with an aggressive business growth plan in covid- Current Recruitment methodologies- How this impacted our recruitment strategy for 2021 - What were the successes and 'learning' from the agile recruitment approach
2. What does 2022 look like?- What are we keeping- What are we 'reverting' back to?
3. Culture and new starters during the pandemic.

Struggling to fill roles? Suffering the candidate shortage? Questioning your advertising strategy? Rob's here to help. Updates and developments from the leading job boards all recruiters should be using, served up with expert advice for drastically improving results. Make every pound you spend on advertising count. Make more placements, generate more revenue.

The story of starting a specialist recruitment business at the start of the pandemic. How I Coordinated and launched a successful opening for Jessamy Staffing Solutions Limited at its Bolton HQ office and how Jessamy Platinum Homecare has been born. Strategise long-term business needs, driving client feedback for process improvements.