Interesting that its Serco behind the Real Time consultants ad. But at the end of the day it will still be the same package offered, and therein lies the problem.
The pay and particularly the benefits package is not as good as it used to be and when prospective people look closely it's putting them off. Only a few years ago you could go to Dubai, have a nice villa paid for by the company. Have 3 kids schooling paid for. A decent health insurance with little employee contribution and the full price of tickets home.
This has all changed. Now you have dig deep into your own pocket to make up the difference between the company accommodation allowance and the price of a decent villa. Particularly if you need to live near British curriculum schools. Only 2 kids schooling are paid for. Health insurance doesn't cover much and if you want to fly home in the summer the travel allowance isn't enough to buy you a ticket.
Hence fewer people wanting to go and more ads in flight in whatever disguise.
How long it's going to take before the company realise that if it doesn't bid the contracts high enough to give people decent benefits is anyones guess. But with fewer applicants and more people leaving sooner or later it will become unmanageable. If you don't have the people you don't have a contract. Benefits have been slowly eroded away over the last 5 or 6 years.
Shame really as it's a good place to be, but not at all costs.
Yes it has been easy to get people in the past , but that is certainly not the case now.
