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By Gina Le Prevost, chief executive of AP Group
DURING the course of the year, we register and interview many candidates looking to change job to enhance their careers.
At AP Group (AP Executive, AP Personnel and AP Technical divisions), we are listing the top five factors that jobseekers advise us they are looking for in a new employer when making that all-important career move.
COMPENSATION
Excellent salary and benefits are what jobseekers appear to value most, when revealing to us the reason they wish to change job.We have noticed that candidates are looking for stability, as the current expensive economic climate has led to many mortgage rate rises and increases in cost of living. They are looking at their general quality of life, both for themselves and, if relevant, their families.
WORK AND PERSONAL LIFE
Jobseekers still value employers’ support in ensuring they can enjoy a healthy work/life balance. The Covid pandemic created the opportunity for people to work hybrid or from home. It also got employees thinking about their priorities and what was important in their lives.As a result, candidates still continue to prioritise their hours of work to ensure their physical and mental wellbeing is in check. It is important to ensure that, during interview, the potential employer discusses and provides to the interviewee information about their organisation values and how it supports its staff.
FLEXIBILITY
Flexible working hours is also an important factor, as is when and where the new employee will be able to work. Most candidates we interview really want remote working opportunities, even during their probation period if possible. Remote or hybrid working is still a trend. However, we have noticed some employers looking to rein in the remote, preferring the hybrid of three days in the office and two days working from home. This hybrid trend is still interesting to jobseekers. Only a small minority of candidates we interview opt or want to work full-time in an office.
LEARNING
Jobseekers are still learning on the job and want to enhance their CVs which, of course, is a good thing.We encourage candidates never to stop learning as you never know when the next global downturn may happen and so you need to be at the top of your game and be in a competitive position when the job market turns to an employer’s one.
PROMOTION
We still see jobseekers looking for a new role due as their current employer is unable to enhance their career path with promotional opportunities. If a candidate has been working in the same role for the same employer for three to five years without any change in their job circumstances, then they become bored and frustrated. There are always candidates who have reached their ceiling in their career and so are happy to continue in the same job for the rest of their career. However, the majority who we interview want career advancement or to know that their current employer recognises their potential and will promote them when possible.
We hope the above reasons have given some interesting insights into the 2023 job market.
For more information, please visit apgroupglobal.com.
