Leading recruitment firm Gi Group has warned about two troubling trends reshaping the UK job market – ghost hiring and vampire recruitment – as UK hiring slumps to ‘pandemic-era’ levels according to the Recruitment and Employment Confederation (REC) and accountants KPMG.
 
The practices are causing significant harm to jobseekers, companies, and the wider employment landscape, threatening to undermine trust and efficiency in hiring processes.
 
Andy Carpenter, Senior Director of Operations SMS at Gi Group's UK, decried the implications of these practices. “Recruitment should foster trust and collaboration between employers and candidates. Instead, ghost hiring and vampire recruitment undermine this relationship. These trends are both morally questionable and strategically flawed, as they waste company resources and repel top talent.”
 
The broader implications are significant. A growing body of evidence suggests that jobseekers, already navigating a cost-of-living crisis and post-pandemic job market shifts, are increasingly wary of engaging with companies perceived as dishonest or disorganised in their hiring efforts.
 
Please see attached the full story along with an image of Andy for our use.