Recruitment companies have their work cut out for them as we move into 2011. According to Top-Consultant.com’s recent survey of 133 recruiters, hiring expectations are back up to pre-recession levels, with upturns expected in the financial services industry in particular. Consulting in general is heading upwards, and with demand rising recruiters will have to pick [...]
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Recruitment is on the Rise!
Posted in Huntswood, Huntswood Recruitment, tagged awards, Huntswood Recruitment, jobs, recruitment, top-consultant.com recruiter survey on March 25, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
The State of the Market in Healthcare Consulting
Posted in Huntswood Recruitment, tagged executive consulting, Huntswood, Huntswood Recruitment, jobs, management consultancy, recruitment, resourcing on March 7, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Stephen Humphreys continues his sector specific tour of the consulting industry. This fortnight his focus is the healthcare industry. Consulting to the healthcare industry, and particularly to the NHS, has traditionally been the largest sub-sector that is paid for from the public-purse. Ranging from long term strategy reports, to the ill-fated National Programme for [...]
State of the Consulting Market in Media
Posted in Huntswood Recruitment, tagged bbc, bskyb, executive consulting, Huntswood, Huntswood Recruitment, jobs, management consultancy, media, oliver & ohlbaum, recruitment, resourcing on March 1, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Stephen Humphreys of Huntswood continues his series reviewing different sectors within consultancy, looking at the state of the market. This week he turns his attention to the media industry. Media is one of those sectors that we all feel a part of. We all engage with it and use it, whether we watch the television, [...]
Consultancy in Pharmaceuticals
Posted in Huntswood Recruitment, tagged consulting, executive consulting, Huntswood, Huntswood Recruitment, jobs, management consultancy, recruitment, resourcing on February 11, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
In the latest of the current series of editorials for top-consultant.com, Stephen Humphreys from Huntswood reviews the consultancy market in pharmaceuticals. Pharmaceuticals is a sector, perhaps even more than Oil & Gas, where the industries minnows are still behemoths. Never is this clearer than when looking at the revenue figures of the top 50 global [...]
Reflections on the transfer window – a metaphor for consulting salaries?
Posted in Huntswood Recruitment, tagged executive consulting, Huntswood, Huntswood Recruitment, jobs, management consultancy, recruitment, resourcing, strategy on February 4, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Well it was an exciting end to the January football transfer window. As an avid Football Manager player (Newcastle are my team!) I was concerned at Carroll’s move, but it brought in a lot of money to a club who have had some financial difficulties. It’s a shame they cannot invest it in new talent [...]
The State of the Consulting Market in Utilities
Posted in Huntswood Recruitment, tagged asset management, electricity, energy, energy trading, executive consulting, Huntswood Recruitment, management consultancy, recruitment, resourcing, strategy jobs, utilities, water on January 21, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Following on from the previous editorial, which looked at upstream energy, we now look downstream at utilities. Although there is some cross-over, particularly in the mid-stream energy trading that is looked at towards the end of this article, the research for the article drew out some real differences that are worth highlighting. Utility companies are [...]
The State of the Market: Upstream Energy Consulting – The Trio of Fossil Fuels, Nuclear & Renewables
Posted in Huntswood Recruitment, tagged consulting, executive consulting, Huntswood, Huntswood Recruitment, jobs, management consultancy, recruitment, resourcing on January 4, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Huntswood’s latest article looks at the state of the consulting market in the energy sector. The sourcing and supply of energy is one of the largest concerns currently facing our planet. Fossil fuels are naturally limited in supply, and their continuing development is becoming all the more complex—both geographically and technically. Only in the last [...]
The Immigration Cap – what does it mean?
Posted in Huntswood Recruitment, tagged executive consulting, Huntswood, Huntswood Recruitment, jobs, management consultancy, recruitment, resourcing on December 22, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Immigration is one of those headline grabbing subjects that has been a major talking point during as many election campaigns as I can remember. At the end of November the coalition government announced some of the most radical changes to immigration law that have been seen in years. Here are some of the facts: The [...]
Consulting in the Age of Sustainability
Posted in Huntswood Recruitment, tagged atos, carbon capture, carbon reduction, consulting, CSR, executive consulting, Huntswood, Huntswood Recruitment, jobs, logica, management consultancy, pwc, recruitment, resourcing, sustainability on December 8, 2010 | 3 Comments »
The fifth fortnightly editorial from Huntswood’s Stephen Humphreys focuses on consulting opportunities within a market sector that is becoming increasingly prevalent – sustainability. Sustainability is a global issue, hugely topical, and a nascent sector in consultancy. Many large consultancy firms are appointing global heads for their sustainability function. Increasingly consultancies are offering focussed sustainability offerings; [...]
Consultancy in Retail and Consumer Goods
Posted in Huntswood Recruitment, tagged consulting, consumer goods, fmcg, Huntswood Recruitment, jobs, management consultancy, recruitment, resourcing, retail, strategy on November 24, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
In the forth of his current series of editorials Huntswood’s Stephen Humphreys explores the current opportunities and challenges facing consultancy in the retail and consumer goods sector. Consumer goods has been a buoyant market within the UK economy since the 1950s. It is one of the few truly globally sectors. Unilever, Proctor & Gamble, Sony, [...]