At the same time, the recruitment process is frustrating to say the least, with no-shows and poor communication from candidates becoming run of the mill. It’s making recruitment very difficult for employers who are having to pay inflated salaries for people with little or no experience and who, on paper, might previously have been their second choice. As a group, these people will never before have felt so wanted. The market for support staff, for graduates and second-jobbers is red hot. Put together, these factors mean that shipping is facing even tougher competition than usual from other sectors that are facing the same supply problems.Īcross industry, inexperienced and unskilled people have choice in a way that we’ve never seen before. Only a small amount of Spinnaker’s recruitment is for UK employers, but the situation there is exacerbated by Brexit and the loss of a significant potential workforce. A lot of people have left the workplace thanks to covid – the consequences of people deciding to make lifestyle changes and to take early retirement cannot be overstated. There is a palpable supply-side shortfall. Director of commercial recruitment, Matt Cornelius, says the market is “really competitive” for operations and chartering staff, particularly in dry bulk and that a number of companies have given “solid” pay rises and bonuses recently, which naturally makes it more difficult for their competitors to tempt staff away. Overall recruitment volume is up at the moment. Old jobs that were on hold are crawling out of the woodwork and there is a renewed interest to see CVs and candidates for those jobs.” “It changes with the wind.” However, David agrees with Spinnaker’s MD of Executive Search Teresa Peacock that “people seem to be more optimistic in terms of their recruitment plans at the moment there’s a sense that clients are positioning themselves for a better year in that respect. “One day it’s up, the next it’s down,” according to Spinnaker Director David Tubb. Whereas there is usually a trend, whether it’s up or down, the only consistent thing about the market for the last two years is that it is very inconsistent. It should come as no surprise that it’s not business as usual. I sat down this week with my colleagues in the senior recruitment leadership team at Spinnaker to discuss the state of the maritime recruitment market.
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