What are your biggest concerns for 2018?

I definitely agree with all of these concerns but definitely hear what Keith is saying! We've experienced significant difficulty recruiting for certain skilled roles - there seems to be a real skills shortage within the IT/cyber security sector at the moment and I don't think it will improve.
Might make for some interesting conversations amongst the Leadership team... the first hurdle will be changing some mindsets over our benefits package!

I definitely agree with all of these concerns but definitely hear what Keith is saying! We've experienced significant difficulty recruiting for certain skilled roles - there seems to be a real skills shortage within the IT/cyber security sector at the moment and I don't think it will improve.
Might make for some interesting conversations amongst the Leadership team... the first hurdle will be changing some mindsets over our benefits package!

Interesting. Claire says that she is struggling to recruit to the children's services sector, while Nicola says she has not found it so hard to fill roles for more than a decade.

Is anyone else having trouble recruiting?

And yet according to Timewise Foundation research almost two million people are unable to access work because they need to work flexibly - that's an awful lot of talent going to waste! timewise.co.uk/.../

Completely agree with you - we are having real trouble recruiting into this area

Very much a candidate-led market at the moment! We're really having to up our game in terms of our attraction and retention strategy (which was well over-due!).