There have been a number of articles written in the past few weeks identifying the possible changing recruitment habits of some employers. The uncertainty in the stock markets, fuel price movement and the relatively weak pound against other currencies would appear to be causing employers to think twice about recruiting permanent executives in some cases. Perhaps they are playing a waiting game and are turning to contractors and interim managers to plug the skills gap until such time as the way ahead becomes more predictable.

This could a blessing in disguise for the interim management sector although I am a little too old in the tooth to get excited too quickly. We have seen no evidence of this trend as yet but we have seen an influx of first time interim managers registering with us as a result of changing career aspirations and increased corporate redundancy programmes.

Redundancy is one of the main changes in executive careers that cause a re-think of what people want from their work life balance. Many successful interim managers would not have considered an interim career had they not been forced to consider all options following a corporate redundancy programme.

We mainly supply the manufacturing sector with interim managers and the demand is still consistently buoyant but with no spike in extra demand as a result of changing recruitment policies as yet. Rest assured we will keep you informed if we detect any change in recruitment patterns.

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