| | Striking figures just
released illustrate that
job hunter activity
within the management
consulting industry is
at a three-year high,
with this buoyancy
expected to last through
until the summer.
The trend data,
released by management
consultancy careers
website
Top-Consultant.com,
shows the number of job
adverts being reviewed
by candidates has broken
through the 400,000 per
month barrier for the
first time since Q2
2005. This follows
robust February figures
which had also hit a two
year high.
The timing of annual
bonus rounds typically
means that the early | |
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| | months of a new year are
active times for
job-seekers. Some,
having secured sizeable
bonuses, are liberated
from the need to stick
with their employer for
fear of missing out on
bonuses. Others, whose
expectations have not
been met, are clearly
incentivised to look
elsewhere for their next
career progression step.
What is noticeable
this year is that this
surge in candidate
activity is likely to
last right through until
the summer months. With
22% of consulting firms
having delayed the start
to their recruitment
campaigns in 2008, only
now are many of them
starting to advertise
the roles that | |
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| | consultants would aspire
to move to (source:
Top-Consultant.com’s
2008 Recruitment Channel
Report with data from
150+ management
consultancy recruiters).
Hence pent-up candidate
demand to find and apply
to attractive roles is
expected to boost job
board activity levels
through until the
summer.
Bryan Hickson, sales
director at
Top-Consultant.com,
comments: “It's a great
time to be recruiting
consultants right now.
There's an awful lot of
candidate activity – I
thought it had peaked in
February but it just
keeps growing. However,
there have also not been
as many campaigns live | |
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| | as we would normally
expect at this time of
year due to ongoing
market jitters and
school holidays/the
early Easter. So we can
see that those campaigns
that are live are
getting a lot of
responses and any
recruiters holding off
on kick-starting their
recruitment campaigns
are really missing out
on some exceptional
candidates.”
When assessing the
types of roles
consulting firms are
looking to fill, it is
interesting to note that
financial services
practices are
advertising more
aggressively than any
other practice area –
with public sector | |
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| | consulting practices and
then generalist
consulting roles making
up the top three in
terms of sector
specialisms. This
suggests that the
difficulties being
experienced by the
world’s large banks are
actually stimulating
demand for consulting
services rather than
harming the amount of
business out there to be
won. In terms of types
of consultants in
demand, business process
improvement & business
transformation
consultants are in
greatest demand,
followed by programme
management consultants
and strategy
consultants. | |
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