Covid-19 has re-shaped the dimensions of supply and demand in the UK labour market.

Some sectors have suffered from ‘demand shock’ resulting in an unprecedented drop in employment rates, whilst demand in other sectors has never been higher. A record number of people now require support to find employment, whilst at the same time, employers in markets which have proved more resilient to the crisis need help in recruiting, retaining or developing their workforce.

Here’s where Skill the Nation offers a solution. We can help fast-track the UK’s economic recovery by:

• helping those individuals whose jobs have been impacted by Covid to find employment; and
• offering employers in those sectors which are recovering more quickly, the recruitment, redeployment and retention support they need, at scale.

The UK’s largest recruitment agency Staffline and the UK’s leading training provider PeoplePlus - alongside their extensive UK-wide network of employer and training provider partners - are helping move those who have lost jobs into industries where there are hundreds of vacancies.

It’s a genuine win-win-win-win:

• the security of new roles and new skills for those who need them
• much needed support for those businesses currently desperate to make new hires at scale
• relief for those sectors where demand will not return for some months
• a kick-start for the UK as we pursue urgently-needed economic recovery.

Let’s get to work and Skill the Nation