The Recruitment and Employment Confederation has issued a statement of findings from its JobsOutlook.

This report, surveys a number of employers to evaluate the needs and satisfaction of recruitment agencies. The positive statistic that came out of this report was that 91% of the employers surveyed stated they were happy with the service they had received from their recruitment agency.

REC’s director of research, Roger Tweedy added that this is very encouraging as we have just gone through a very difficult period in the job market and this shows recruitment agencies have been maintaining their high standards to please their clients.

Other findings from this report were that 10% of the employers are planning to increase their permanent workforce.
61% of the employers stated that they will continue to use recruitment agencies in the same capacity.
70% of agencies said that their temporary staffing situation will stay the same; this is a slight drop from the last report which stated 77% of the employers believed it would stay the same.

Jobslook is a report based on 200 employers and presented on the results of the last 3 months i.e. 600 responses. This report is published in conjunction with KPMG.