FROM NOVEMBER'S RECRUITER MAGAZINE 

Meeting readers and being challenged by high-level thinking – what an enjoyable way to spend the day! Thanks to all who participated, and a very big ‘thank you’ indeed to our panellists plus Irwin Mitchell, Squire Patton Boggs, the Association of Recruitment Consultancies (ARC), Northstar and hiredbyme.com. 

The irony of the initial discussions around a post-Brexit UK is that the very issues the ‘Leave’ campaign focused on as persuasions to join their movement are those seeming the unlikeliest to be viable. ARC’s bold new Post-Brexit Manifesto offers some common-sense concepts that could benefit the recruitment industry while one suggestion – a joined-up tax approach – would benefit the entire country. Yet is anyone listening? The UK needs a dynamic, healthy recruitment industry and job economy now more than ever; the UK needs the business expertise, the natural entrepreneurial capabilities and understanding of jobs, skills, workplace and employment our sector has to offer. 

Recruitment must have a place at Brexit planning’s head table.

DeeDee Doke, editor