HR again in the price

According to Antal Russia the company again began to recruit specialists and managers on recruitment, but this is a good sign that employers are configured on the further development and are ready to open more new jobs. In the first half of the year job recruiters were only 2% of the total number of vacancies in the field of HR, now their number has increased to 8%.

Professionals and managers in the field of human resources were among the first affected by the crisis: Many companies, especially Russia, chose to reduce the function of recruitment. Now the demand for professionals of this area began to gradually recover, mainly due to vacancies in the Western companies that need experienced recruiters - preferably a little more skilled than required for this position. |

"We have a vacancy level manager recruitment or recruitment manager functions in the company - commented Elena Biryukova, head of HR-department recruitment company Antal Russia. - Companies have reviewed the role of this function: if earlier the main indicator of the quality of recruiter was the number of candidates who meet the requirements of the job, now the main focus is on the quality of candidates. Now, at the stage of selecting a recruiter should be as close as possible to assess how the applicant can be loyal to the company, whether he is prepared to accept the corporate culture and policies of the company, as the potential for career and professional growth. "

Employment agencies that are specific indicator of the health of the market and have been forced to reduce staff in late 2008 and early 2009, also taking a course to expand and begin to recruit new consultants for recruitment. "But now it has become much more difficult to find good recruiters," - Michael GERMERSHAUZEN remarks, Deputy Director of Antal Russia. Activity observed by the major Russian and western recruiting companies, besides the candidates considered and a small "boutique" agencies.

"Recruitment companies, which are separated by a function of working with clients and candidates to vacancies, mainly attract experienced professionals to work with candidates while to find a really competent people who know the market is not easy - says Anna Vvedensky, manager of training and development of recruitment company Antal Russia. - Our consultants work with both clients and candidates, and we are interested in people able to completely build your own business within the company. At the same time we are ready to attract people with experience in both recruitment and those who have achieved some success in other professional fields, and seeking to change career path: add a dynamic and creative. For example, we have been successfully working as a consultant, who came from areas such as accounting and finance, sales and marketing, HR, information technology and others.

Many recruiters from agencies are considering to join the client as the next step in career development and, as a rule, come to management positions. They successfully compete with candidates from the internal recruitment, with its greater expertise in certain niches and excellent knowledge of the market of candidates - including those professionals who are not in the public domain.

Recruitment companies wary of specialists from the internal service recruitment, which tend to move in the agency, which typically offered a more interesting scheme of compensation.

"People who are involved in the selection of personnel in the company, it may be difficult to adapt to work in the agency, where a special way to build relations with clients and candidates - says Anna Vvedenskaya. - We as an agency are looking for people who are open to everything new, ready to take unconventional decisions and achieve a certain result. "