Career Advice

Although the improvements aren’t huge, here are three reasons why recruitment activity looks to be increasing in the UK and beyond.
1. Revenues at one of the larger executive recruitment firms, Michael Page, were at £98m for the first quarter of this year. At an average placement fee of £12k, this equates to 8,167 people placed into roles [...]

Recruitment Update
The number of permanent staff appointments made by UK recruitment consultancies has increased in March at its strongest rate since October 1997, according to new research.
The latest report on jobs by the Recruitment and Employment Confederation (REC) and KPMG also reveals an increase of permanent staff vacancies.
Amongst permanent workers, IT and computing staff were [...]

Executive Recruiters Confident
As we reported recently, our survey of 1226 job seekers revealed optimism for an improving job market in the latter stages of 2010.
This ties in with what recruiters are thinking in 2010, as executive recruiters are showing renewed levels of confidence.
According to new research from the Association of Executive Search Consultants (AESC), the vast [...]

Executive Job Vacancies
Evidence appearing from executive recruitment firms suggests that the market for executive jobs and management vacancies is beginning to turn around.
Top search firms tend to be performing better in Q3 2009, compared to Q2, 2009. Q3 2009 revenue at leading executive search firm Heidrick & Struggles International increased 17% compared to the second quarter.
Third quarter [...]

With time being so valuable, today we’re looking at what we can do to speed up the executive job search process.
More specifically, we look at what peak performers do to get to the top and we apply these factors to the job search.
Applying peak performance principles to the job search brings us the following…
1) Have a clear view [...]

Senior Executive Recruitment
When it comes to climbing to the top of your career and landing a senior executive role, it can happen faster than in previous years.
Margareta Panago researched the backgrounds of FTSE 100 CEOs for executive recruitment firm Whitehead Mann.
She found that ten years ago, the average age of a FTSE 100 CEO was 55, today [...]