Travel vacancies still far down on 2023 despite March rise

C&M Travel Recruitment saw its vacancies rise 11% in March, the second highest level in seven months, but these are down 32% on the same month in 2023.

C&M said March was also a positive month for placements, with the number of candidates securing new travel jobs reaching its second highest total since last August despite a fall of 3% from February. 
 
There was a 2% dip in the number of new candidates searching for travel jobs in March. However, this figure is an increase of 25% from the pre-pandemic month of March 2019.
 
Barbara Kolosinska, C&M managing director, said: "Activity levels are still lower than we would ideally like to see them and remain down compared to the pre-pandemic period, but there were many positives to take from last month.

“Job vacancies and placements both reached their second highest levels since last summer, while the number of new candidate registrations also remained historically high for March.
 
"We now need some consistency. Easter is likely to affect April’s numbers, but once that’s out of the way we will hopefully see month-on-month increases across all of these metrics as we build towards the summer months."