Retention before Recruitment Holding on to your best people is a challenge facing many businesses. Many employees have literally been ‘sitting out’ the recession, however, at some stage or other your best people may just begin to take a look for their next opportunity, and guess what, your competitors are in a predatory mood. One
I found myself sharing Philip Clarke’s frustration with the big executive search firms (A dinosaur in the information age, Recruiter, 10 November). Too often, clients go into autopilot when it comes to senior appointments and turn to the player everyone uses, rather than trying to find the best partner for their specific needs. Of
After years of overmanning, the chemicals industry is finding itself facing a skills gap. At middle management level in particular, it is becoming increasingly difficult to find experienced candidates in certain disciplines, such as chemical, industrial and electronic engineering – a situation that been caused partly by a general decline in UK manufacturing, but also
With the recession officially over, business is picking up – and so is recruitment. We’re seeing more companies rushing to get the people in who can support the upturn, at the same time as planning more ambitiously for future growth. Of course, that’s good news for the chemical industry (and, indeed, for executive search
Following the success of our first event – “Winning Mind” http://www.rmg-uk.com/rmg-winning-mind/ in November, we are looking to share