Why Employers Are Losing Candidates Mid-Process
Category: Hiring Process | Read time: ~3 minutes You’ve found a strong candidate. They’ve come in for interview, they impressed the panel, and everyone agrees they’re the right person. Then comes the wait… for a second opinion, a final sign-off, a date in the diary. And then comes the message: they’ve accepted another offer. It’s […]
Why Good Candidates Are Harder to Hire in 2026
Category: Talent Market Insights | Read time: ~4 minutes If recruiting feels harder than it used to, you’re not imagining it. Across Northamptonshire’s commercial, industrial, supply chain, and technical sectors, the talent market has shifted, and many businesses are still approaching recruitment with the same expectations they had three or four years ago. The landscape […]
Perm Placements Are Down Across the Midlands. So Why Is This Our Busiest Spring Since 2022?
The regional headlines might look cautious, but at Impact Recruitment, we’re telling a very different story. The latest KPMG and REC UK Report on Jobs for the Midlands (March 2026) makes for mixed reading at first glance. Permanent placements fell at their sharpest rate in five months, and the Midlands recorded the steepest decline of […]
The Real Cost of Rising Wages: What Northamptonshire Logistics Employers Need to Know
The National Living Wage has risen nearly £4 since April 2020. But behind that headline figure lies a more complicated story about compression, retention, and the true cost of keeping pace. 14th April 2025 At a recent Northamptonshire Logistics Forum, Matthew Hospon, our Operations Manager shared findings on what rapidly rising National Living Wage (NLW) […]
