Which is growing fastest? Temp or Perm?

Jobs are coming back for Recruitment Agencies as we saw in the JobAdder data released on Tuesday.

The question I get asked a lot is which will come back first, and fastest? Temp/Contract or Permanent roles?

Once again, I tapped JobAdder, and they have provided brilliant answers to that question.

(Sign up for the JobAdder webinar next week to get all the results. See below).

Not surprisingly, the majority of jobs filled by Agencies across the world right now, are Temp/Contract roles. It makes sense. Employers are tentative, and everyone is afraid to commit.

Australia hovers around 70% of roles filled being Temp/Contract. In fact, over the nine months of the survey period, this has barely wavered at all.

New Zealand is even more Temp/Contract biased. Interestingly in January and February, what we might call ‘Pre-COVID’ months, the percentage of Temp jobs taken vs Perm was 82% and 83% respectively. Since then it has hovered in the late 70%’s.

The UK has the highest percentage of permanent roles taken amongst the four regions measured. (60% Temp/Contract), although the last three months might suggest that the trend is down and perm is increasing.

The US/Canada also has a slightly higher bias towards Permanent, although we can see Temp/Contract increased significantly from April onwards.

Sign up for the JobAdder webinar where the full report is released, and the findings shared. It includes data on Placements Growth, Temp vs Perm, time to fill, and lots more;

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US and Canada webinar

*The “JobAdder 2020 Recruitment Industry Report” is produced by JobAdder, ‘Recruitment software you’ll want to use’, using the real-time data taken from their tens of thousands of users globally.

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