Thinking about a career in social care but not quite sure where to start or how to break into the sector? We’re giving you the lowdown on what you need to do and how you can find out whether a job in social care is where you’re destined to be.

One year on from the first UK lockdown, Leigh Passingham, Brand Lead and Operations Director at Brook Street, James Levey, Compliance Director at ManpowerGroup and Leanne Winter, HR Manager at ManpowerGroup discussed:

With the number of candidates applying for roles sky-rocketing and the world of work at a distinct transition point, businesses across the globe are starting to wake up to the need to assess both new and existing talent differently. To help businesses understand more about the benefits of assessments for talent pool management, Petra Tagg and Lee McQueen – Founder and CEO of Phoenix 51 discuss

As the UK prepares to slowly lift lockdown to varying degrees across the home nations, the burning question from workers remains: ‘what is the future of my workplace?’ Remote working was not new to many senior managers in some traditional office roles, our data recorded pre-pandemic found that in the UK only 6% of the workforce still worked a 9-5 working day.

Conducted on a quarterly basis, the ManpowerGroup Employment Outlook Survey (MEOS) for Q2 2021 was conducted by interviewing a representative sample of 1,515 UK employers, asking “How do you anticipate total employment at your location to change in the three months to the end of March 2021 as compared to the current quarter?” Chris Gray, Director of ManpowerGroup and Savannah Dixon, Head of Communications and Corporate Affairs discuss.

If you were given the chance to ask a candidate one additional question in your next Zoom or Microsoft Teams interview, what would you ask? What about: Do you play video or computer games? You can learn a lot about someone by talking about gaming because people often inhabit the places and cultures depicted within games, much like they would at work.

The COVID-19 shock has come at a time when the jobs market is already going through a period of transformation and upheaval. The fourth industrial revolution, characterised by increased digitisation and automation, means the skills required by the jobs of the new decade are very different to what was needed five or ten years previously. The pandemic accelerated this change.

In this post, we’re exploring five key principles that you can build into your life in 2021, to improve your overall wellbeing and enjoyment at work.

By gaming more often during the pandemic, potential employees are developing soft skills that today’s employers need the most.