Originally posted by reddog
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In my mind, getting a 'lot' of calls is between 1-3 a week. The approaches I get tend to be well targeted for perm jobs at large companies at up to £100k ish. I always understood that the higher up the salary scale, the higher percentage fee the agent is on so if they can identify you via LinkedIn, it might be a more cost effective/profitable way to do it compared to a few years ago (e.g. expensive press advertising.)
Interestingly, one Partner at a boutique agency told me that he was encouraging his recruiters to use LinkedIn less and go back to 'traditional' forms of networking. The inference was that this would identify higher calibre candidates.
I would say the market is improving but can only speak for London/SE. A lot of companies have reined back on investment during the financial crisis of the last 5 years but you can only do that for so long. The FTSE100 companies have a record amount of cash on their balance sheets so there is plenty of money to invest in new programmes and initiatives.
Personally, I've never seen so many vacancies in my area of expertise as I have in the last 4-5 months
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