Greetings
Welcome to the July issue of our quarterly newsletter. This is our third issue of the year and it features the usual diverse mix of recruitment articles.
Amongst others Stuart Spindler takes a look at the executive recruitment market going forward and spots (dare we say it) 'green shoots', whilst the Spindler admin team offers some helpful tips to smoothing the recruitment process and boosting your employment chances.
Enjoy the read and please feel free to let us know what you think.
Develop or replace?
Over the past year many Executives have found their job roles changed and expanded as new challenges have landed on their desks. Sometimes this works well but sometimes it leads to underperformance. Nigel Bates looks at the dilemma for CEO's who have to try and fit square pegs into round holes.
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Recruitment market update
An overview of the current executive recruitment market. Companies have battened down the hatches but Stuart spots green shoots on the horizon.
Telephone screening takes centre stage
As recruitment processes have changed the importance of telephone screening has grown significantly, yet many organisations manage the process in a very haphazard way. This can result in excellent candidates slipping through the net.
The vital role of Remuneration Research
For businesses to survive in a recession, and position themselves competitively for the eventual upturn, they need to ensure that their most capable leaders remain in place and highly motivated. Nigel Bates outlines how remuneration research can pay big dividends for businesses.
Improving your chances - some tips from the Admin team
The initial period of any recruitment process can be quite laborious and time intensive. Most businesses tend to delegate parts of the process to their administrative staff. Here we talk Louise Manley and Ally Bowen who provide some useful tips on helping the process run smootlhy, enhancing the prospect of a successful outcome.
Public sector jobs, private sector know-how
With increasing numbers of private sector executives eyeing public sector jobs, Pat Perridge and Stuart Spindler look at how Public Private Partnerships offer a useful stepping stone between the two sectors.
Closer links with Cranfield MBAs
Cranfield School of Management is renowned as a centre of excellence for management education. An integral part of Cranfield’s offering is a career advisory service and, in our experience, this is one of the best developed programmes of any business school for placing MBA graduates.
Following recent discussions with Cranfield SOM’s Career Development Service, Spindler has established closer links. This will ensure that Spindler’s clients will have ready access to Cranfield’s recent MBA graduates – and to Cranfield alumni seeking a job change. More details about this exciting development will follow in the next newsletter.
Futuresource
As regular visitors the to CIWM exhibition in Torbay we were all on tenterhooks as to how its replacement - Futuresource - would fare at the Excel conference centre in east London. I am glad to say that it did not dissappoint. While the modern Excel centre lacks some of the atmosphere of Torbay there is no doubt that this was more than made up for by increased convenience and visitor numbers.
We had many more visitors to our stand this year and additonal networking opportunities, such as the river cruise, more than made up for the location's lack of glamour. Thanks to all who visited our stand. We hope to see you there again next year - which will be our tenth anniversary attending this flagship show.
