| What will 2012 have in store for consulting candidates? |
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| | For those trying to
secure a new consulting
job, 2011 has been a
rollercoaster ride. As
our annual report
predicted early in the
year, there was a
significant rebound in
hiring after two and a
half years in which the
consultancy recruitment
market had been in the
doldrums.
Historically that
report ‒ based on an
anonymous annual survey
of candidatesand a
separate survey of
consulting recruiters’
hiring intentions ‒ has
been a very accurate
predictor of activity in
the following year. In
2011, however, the
market has faced the
setback of the Eurozone | |
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| | crisis and its knock-on
effects on consulting
client demand. So while
most of the year saw a
significant uplift in
activity over 2010, the
last few weeks have seen
a marked slowdown.
The question on
everyone’s lips is how
much things will improve
in 2012? A report to be
published by
Top-Consultant.com early
in the New Year will aim
to answer this question
– and provide both
recruiters and
candidates with the
definitive view on what
we can expect from the
consulting hiring market
in 2012. Candidates are
being invited to
participate in the
(anonymous) candidate | |
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| | in the recruiter survey
early in January (** If
you are a recruiter and
don’t currently receive
Top-Consultant’s
recruiter updates,
please email
graeme@top-consultant.co
m to be added to our
recruiter updates
list).
Top-Consultant
director Tony Restell
commented: “Certainly
our view on 2011 is that
consulting firms have
been engaged in what
could be described as
‘just in time’
recruiting. Most hiring
has been for specific
positions related to
specific project wins ‒
and so any changes in a
firm’s confidence about
winning projects has | |
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| | immediately fed through
into hiring activity
levels. Hence when
market confidence has
taken a knock ‒ as it
has done just recently ‒
the impact on hiring
activity has been both
significant and sudden.
Equally though, when
confidence returns we
expect hiring activity
to be reinstated very
quickly and so
volatility may be the
defining word for 2012
as hiring activity
mirrors market
headlines.”
With the candidate
and recruiter surveys
now underway,
Top-Consultant expects
to publish a revised set
of projections for the
consulting market early | |
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| | survey and thereby
receive a preview copy
of the full report (see
the link above).
Recruiter contacts,
meanwhile, will be
invited to participate | |
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