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Why recruitment is ripe for disruption
19,440
Recruitment
agencies in the
UK
£28.7 billion
UK recruitment
industry revenue
2014
1.15 million
People working
in temp jobs
each day
634,000
Permanent jobs
filled by recruiters
2014 70 million
People placed by
recruiters globally
2014
£350 billion
Global recruitment
industry revenue
4,083
New agencies
set up in
2014
Source: REC and Ciett
75%
Agencies employ
less than 10
people
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Recruitment Technology is booming
$2.7
Trillion
Talent Marketplaces
2025
£7.1 billion
HCM Market
Value in 2014
£11.4 billion
HCM Market
Forecast to be
worth by 2019
Startups that offer software for human resources and
recruitment have garnered $811m from venture
capital investors in the first half of 2015.
DowJones VentureWire
Source: McKinsey 2015
A report published by McKinsey in June 2015
indicates that talent marketplaces could play a
significant role in increasing global GDP by $2.7
Trillion by 2025.
McKinsey Report
8. • 64% have rejected a suitable
candidate from a non-preferred agency
• 1 in 2 respondents were unable to fill specialist
roles via their PSL
• 36% of employers have moved away
from a PSL model because it is too
restrictive
• 77% identified ‘quality of hire’ as the
most important metric for success
The effectiveness of Traditional Agency Management
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