Interim Recruitment in 2009

2009 is going to be a challenging year in many ways and whilst the requirement for procurement interims is still likely to continue, it is going to be a competitive market and for the first time in a long time, organisations will have much more choice available to them.

Recruitment trends started to change in the second half of 2008 and we got a taste of what tightening market conditions would mean for our interims. Here at Capita Interim Management we saw job registrations in Local Government procurement increase by 76% compared with the 1st half of the year. In comparison, Central Government roles decreased by 30% and roles in the Private Sector, surprisingly, remained even. Not so bad, I hear you thinking, but when we look beneath the statistics, we could see a very different picture. Roles from the Private Sector came with rates much lower than our interims have been used to achieving and roles within the public sector came with specific requirements that only a small percentage of available candidates could fulfil. In addition to this, contract durations reduced as our clients found it harder to get sign off for anything other than short term recruitment.

The next couple of posts will look at the employement prospects for interims and procurment advise for interims in 2009.