UK resilience buoys Robert Walters amid global hiring slowdown Business Recruiter Robert Walters reported a tough first quarter of 2025, amid a global hiring slowdown and persistent economic uncertainty weighing heavily on recruitment activity. The group cited a combination of cautious employer sentiment, escalating trade tariffs, and shifting economic landscape as key factors disrupting the field. Despite the broader slowdown, the UK was the group’s [...]
Profit slumps at Page Group and Robert Walters as jobs market collapses Business The slowing jobs market has forced two of the UK’s largest recruiters to reveal painful last-year performances in which profit and revenue nosedived. Page Group and Robert Walters both posted double-digit falls in overall revenue for the year ended 31 December. The latter’s earnings plunged 16 per cent to £892m, while Page Group’s dropped 13.5 [...]
Hays: Profit cut in half at recruiter Business Hays has reported another drop in profit as it struggles amid a long-running in the recruitment sector. Group net fees, a key performance indicator in the recruitment sector, dropped 13 per cent in the six months ending 31 December. Operating profit fell 56 per cent to £25.5m, while profit before tax fell 66 per cent [...]
Profit at Robert Walters wiped out as jobs market misery spreads January 14, 2025 The firm faced pressures across all its main markets, with income falling in Asia-Pacific, Europe and the UK.
Robert Walters blames Budget uncertainty for slump in UK fees October 15, 2024 Recruiter Robert Walters has posted a slump in net fee income as economic and political uncertainty dragged on hiring in the UK and Europe.
Hays results ‘lay bare’ UK recruitment crisis August 22, 2024 Recent results from the UK’s leading recruitment firms have been, quite frankly, dismal: profit has collapsed across the board as firms struggle to stay afloat amid a sharp downturn in the market. The sector boomed in 2020 after the tech sector led to a surge in hiring, and increases in wage offers helped attract new [...]
Robert Walters insists 2024 ‘not a lost year’ despite tumbling profit August 1, 2024 Recruiter Robert Walters has insisted that 2024 is not a lost year despite posting another set of results dominated by tumbling profit and and fees.
SThree bucks recruitment sector struggles and hikes dividend July 23, 2024 City recruiter Sthree's focus on industries where talent is in high demand helped it to outperform many of its peers in a half year earnings update in which it posted rising profit and earnings per share despite falling fees and revenue.
With wage growth set to fall, the Bank of England should cut rates in August July 16, 2024 Wage growth remains stubbornly high despite the rise in unemployment and fall in hiring. However, this is not a signal for the Bank to hold off on cutting interest rates, Chris Dorrell argues
Slowing jobs market hits profit at Robert Walters July 15, 2024 The firm said June was the worst year of the month so far for fee income. Fees for the month dropped 18 per cent. Robert Walters said new job flow in the month was "weaker than expected."