Permanent & temporary recruitment solutions

Companies hiring HR professionals have altered their requirements for new recruits over the last couple of years, as roles move closer to the core of the business.
James Lawson, manager of HR, finance and procurement and supply chain recruiter Macildowie’s Nottingham office found that when the recession hit, “more businesses were starting to recruit on technical grounds”, and were looking for the sort of “safe option, [people who] knew the sector, knew operationally exactly how to do the job”.
Now, Lawson says, “we’re seeing a trend move towards actually how we are going to bring people in who are going to affect  our business.”
Julie towers, managing director of recruitment solutions at HR firm Penna says that employers are increasingly seeking candidates who “business first, HR second” – and this trend is also picked up on by David Mason, head of resourcing (UK and Europe) at RBS. In addition to his comments for Recruiter’s HR sector analysis, in the February edition, this week, Mason says:
“Commerciality is something that’s becoming more and more important. When we’re talking several years ago, lots of people were looking at was HR at the table, well, the reality is that [now] we’re absolutely at the table and our business leaders are expecting us to contribute.”
The latest Talent Spotlight report from recruiter Badenoch & Clark shows that permanent HR vacancies in January were up 1.55% on December, while contract roles were down 0.79%. Pay on both sides declined marginally, in both cases by less than 0.1%.
For more on HR and to read more insight from Towers, Mason, and other recruiters and resourcers involved in HR, please see the Recruiter website.