Every day I talk to people about the current state of the graduate recruitment market and the one question that always follows my synopsis is: “So what are we graduates meant to do now?”
Consultancy roles are few and far between, finance roles even scarcer and most graduate schemes have now closed their doors until next [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Credit Crunch’
Graduate recruitment: the stigma of sales
Interim recruitment: demand or demanding in the public sector?
Interim consultants like recessions. Or, perhaps more accurately, recessions tend to like interim consultants. Back in the early 1990s, demand for interim managers shot up as an alternative to investing in permanent staff and therefore committing to larger overheads. But this recession is something altogether different - deeper, and harder hitting, than anything post-War Britain has [...]
Green Shoots Watch: A tale of two employment opinions
Last week, the Financial Times reported on comments made by the deputy director-general of the CBI, John Cridland. John praised UK employers and employees for changing work patterns in order to save jobs. He was, of course, referring to all of the innovative (but equally controversial) ways in which organisations and their employees have been adapting [...]
Green shoots watch
It’s a funny old term, “green shoots”. Yet economists, business men and government officials are steadfastly clinging to the notion that the end of the recession is in sight. So is there truth in the idea that the economy has green fingers, or is it just wishful thinking?
There are certainly some positive signs out there. [...]
