Recruitment Consultancy in the Age of Executive Recruitment
There has never been a busier time for the executive recruitment consultancy. British business has been forced to change rapidly over the last few years, or to sink without trace: as the recession has gathered momentum, companies from all over the British Isles have found it necessary to accept takeovers; to promote mergers; and to slim down or rearrange their working practices to stay competitive in increasingly difficult fields. As a result, executive recruitment has become the buzz word on the street of recruitment consultancy, where more high end providers than ever are being asked to find people to help manage the changing landscape of the UK business.
Consultants like Prism Recruitment, which has been delivering a specialty recruitment service, dealing mainly in change management and systems overhauls, for some years, are reporting a steady stream of inquiries and job prospects. Companies that are trying to manage change are not often well suited to doing it themselves. By definition the change is to something new, something different, and companies, like people, tend to find entrenched habits pretty hard to break. The net effect is that executive recruitment is now big business. Where you need someone qualified to manage the changes that your company is going through, you don’t have the time or the inclination to run an exhaustive advert and interview process yourself (after all, who would want to interview people to do a job that might result in their own being lost or changed?) – you simply reach for the phone and call a recruitment consultancy.
The recruitment agency, like Prism, will provide either a single candidate or a short list of candidates – all of whom have excellent and demonstrable history in the field of high level company management. It is one of the peculiarities of company management that persons who have never worked in your industry before may actually be the best qualified individual for a high level job. Beyond a certain point, familiarity with an industry or a business sector is less important than an ability to see things in wider theoretical terms. Indeed, in some cases a familiarity with the industry a company is in can actually hamper a person from successfully steering a company out of trouble. Executive recruitment candidates are as likely to have saved several different companies in wildly differing sectors of industry from collapse as they are to have had any long term experience in your company’s field.
The recruitment consultancy is supplying an intensely special service to its clients, then – and in 2011 it is likely to be doing more of that than ever before. What British industry needs, and what the recruitment agency industry gives it, is a selection of exceptional people who can think clearly about company practices rather than the nuts and bolts of an individual market sector. Executive recruitment is all about supplying people who are able to make sense of practices and overall company behaviour and to use that sense to turn a business into a better channel. The recruitment consultancy facilitates that – and in the next 12 months it will be helping to restructure British industry so it works better in the modern world.
Prism executive recruitment consultancy offers recruitment services for management consulting jobs, executive recruitment, recruitment consultancy in systems integration and outsourcing markets throughout UK.
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