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Recruitment activity, for obvious reasons, has long been used as a key economic indicator. So, with the OECD forecasting global GDP to shrink somewhere between 6% and 7.6% this year what does this mean for the job market?

Whilst on-line interviews will never replace face to face meetings, they are more commonplace in the early stages of a process and a vitally important part of any process involving international stakeholders.

When we began our recruitment careers, shortlists were either delivered in person or by facsimile. It was the dawn of the next evolution of technology and dotcoms were launching at a phenomenal rate promising automation of which we could yet dream. Recruitment, search, headhunting and all variants of an industry that relied on a seemingly antiquated notion of a little black book, were destined for the history books. Computers would rule the recruitment world and humans would be surplus to requirements. We are still here. How has the recruitment landscape evolved over these past 20 years?

In October 2019, we sat with Phil Dennis, CFO at the PE backed flexible workspace provider, BizSpace. Entering the final quarter of 2019, which promised the first December general election in a century and the finalisation of a paralysing Brexit process, we speak to Phil about his business, its transformation, working with Private Equity Investors and the way ahead.

Update: March 2020 The following advice was written in preparation for the implementation of announced changes to the IR35 regime, which have now been postponed. This means that the responsibility for determining whether a contract falls inside or outside of IR35, still currently resides with the contractor. Best practice would still suggest that the following process should still be adopted now and in preparation for the changes which will (most likely) come in April 2021.

Changing jobs is an important event for most people, although arguably perhaps less significant than it once was now that the idea of a job for life is a thing of the past.