Recruitment readiness: Preparing your care business for what’s to come in 2025

In today’s business landscape, care businesses must be able to adapt to be successful. Keeping up with the latest technology, dealing with a challenging market, and managing many other increasing pressures play a pivotal role in running a successful care business and recruitment readiness.

To deal with these challenges, and to offer the best quality care, your business needs the best people, and that very much relies on the effectiveness of your recruitment process. By having vacancies for prolonged periods, or by bringing in the wrong people, your business will suffer from reduced productivity and morale. Not only that, but the quality of the care you offer can be compromised, leaving your service users to suffer the consequences and your CQC rating to fall.

Recruitment has changed a lot over the past few years. The COVID-19 pandemic, many changes to legislation, and shifting candidate priorities have all made it difficult to follow the recruitment landscape. However, it’s important that your care business understands these recruitment trends to ensure you’re well equipped to bring in top talent.

With that said, our partners over at uCheck, who are market-leading experts in background screening, have written this blog to run you through some of the changes they expect to see in the recruitment landscape for care in 2025.

AI and automation

Regardless of what sector you work in, AI has likely taken it by storm. Many recruiting businesses have turned to AI to transform the ways they bring in new staff. New tools are emerging every day that offer a range of benefits, from optimising candidate sourcing to enhancing the hiring process itself.

Whilst AI is a powerful tool that brings many significant advantages to the table, it also presents challenges and considerations.

AI is nothing compared to the human brain (at least not yet), and by relying on it in too many areas, you risk losing your care business’ personal touch. Not only that, but when you take a step back from managing certain processes yourself, it becomes quite easy to glimpse over certain issues that arise or even forget an entire section of a process. For example, progressing with an application without conducting all relevant pre-employment checks.

Equality, diversity, and inclusion (EDI)

Ultimately, we all deserve to be treated with respect, kindness, and dignity at work. And when we treat each other well, it helps boost the business through better collaboration and increased morale.

With the Employment Law Bill 2024 set to present large employers with the requirement to better address gender equality, it’s never been more important to create a fairer and more flexible place to work.

Gen Z entering the workforce

Those born between the late 90s and early 00s (Gen Z) have been slowly filtering into the workforce for the last few years. However, according to Skills for Care, there is a disproportionately low number of under-25s working in social care – 12% of the economically active population is under 25, but only 8% of the social care workforce.

To attract Gen Z candidates to your care business, you’re going to need to ensure that your recruitment methods aren’t outdated. This generation expects a very digital recruitment experience where they can apply and interview online, and speed at the heart of everything.

Background checks made simple with uCheck

uCheck makes background checks simple for thousands of care organisations just like yours. Their easy-to-use digital platform, Atlas, can provide you with the rapid results you need to speed up your recruitment process whilst making better recruitment decisions.

By working with uCheck, your care business can benefit from:

• Extra time on the clock with speedy pre-employment checks
• More bang for your buck by only paying for the checks you need
• A support team that’s by your side and ready for anything

As a Care England member, you’re eligible for preferential rates and free registration, saving you £49 + VAT!

Ready to get started? Register for free today by visiting www.ucheck.com/pricing and using code CAREENGLANDFREE at checkout.