What is the HR recruitment market looking like for HR Heads across Surrey and Middlesex in 2012?
Posted on Thursday, January 12th, 2012 at 6:33 pm
Good! and long may it continue.
November and December were very busy months, I spent a lot of time on the road, meeting with and talking to HR professionals across both counties.
In December, I completed a retained campaign to find a Head of HR for a leading construction business, successfully delivered to an HR Shared Service centre manager role for a FTSE listed business services group and worked on a string of HR Business Partner vacancies. Not bad for a business entering into a new market ( all be it on the back of a good track record and years of experience ).
This momentum has continued and so far in January, we have been awarded sole supplier status with a leading financial services business, preferred status at a large engineering group and have a strong pipeline of new vacancies and new supplier proposals on the horizon.
The most encouraging sign for 2012 however is that I am receiving calls from talented HR professionals who want to move and believe that opportunity is out there. This is a big change, for a few years now people have been cautious. Generally speaking, professional people have looked for a new role only when they have absolutely needed to. So what is changing? Perhaps people have had enough of waiting for markets to improve? Perhaps the Christmas period has given people time to reflect and decide to make a move? I am sure both are true to an extent. One thing is for sure however - the senior HR market place is a whirlwind of movement that is fuelled by confidence. It thrives when people have the faith to put the feelers out and see what other options may be available to them. The fact that the “safe” population are starting to register is a good sign for the market place in 2012 – is the whirlwind of movement starting to circle?
If you would like to explore new HR opportunity in Surrey or Middlesex feel free to call me at anytime.
Andy
