Why 52% of UK Recruiters Can't Find Qualified Candidates - And Where They Actually Are

For three years running, more than half of UK in-house recruiters have named "scarcity of qualified candidates" their #1 challenge in Eploy's 2026 UK Candidate Attraction Report. And this isn't a post-pandemic distortion – it's the new normal. But is the market really scarce, or is your screening layer rejecting the people you could and should be hiring?

In this 20-minute session, Charlotte Clarke (Eploy) and Greg Dunbar (Hubert) examine why scarcity is now structural, and the practical shift that's helping leading UK employers surface qualified candidates they were missing.