As the leading executive recruiter in travel, Gail Kenny Executive Recruitment was asked for its opinion on how the current crisis is affecting the recruitment industry. My Co-Founder, Ian Brooks gives his advice below.
During a week in which hotels, bars, pubs and restaurants were forced to close their doors following a similar move by schools and universities as the death toll from the virus increased, rec-to-recs on LinkedIn have been reporting a surge in the number of recruitment consultants being let go and have been using their LinkedIn accounts to help consultants being laid off. In the wake of the crisis, Recruiter spoke to agency leaders who emerged from the banking meltdown of 2008.
https://www.recruiter.co.uk/news/2020/03/recruitment-veterans-urge-recruiters-not-panic