Recruitment difficulties affect seven in 10 employers

Most employers are struggling with recruitment and retention, according to new research from IRS.

After setting out the scale of the problem, IRS Employment Review highlights the success of employers' countermeasures, considers their forecasts for the year ahead and examines their cost-control initiatives.

  • Recruitment and retention: Yesterday, today and tomorrow  Neil Rankin reports in IRS Employment Review.

  • Legal changes bring new sense of discipline to HR priorities   IRS Employment Review presents summary findings of the fourth annual HR prospects survey, based on responses from 487 organisations, employing more than 2.7 million people.

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    Human Resources pushes retention up its priority list   Read the recruitment and retention findings of the HR Prospects survey 2004.

    No end in sight to employers' resourcing problems   Read the recruitment and retention findings of the HR Prospects survey 2003.

    HR Prospects survey 2004, HR Prospects survey 2003 and HR Prospects survey 2002   Read the results in full of the previous three annual HR Prospects surveys.