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1 September 2010 | By DeeDee Doke

As CTPartners’ Keith Meyer told us, companies are looking for someone who can “build something people care about”. From here, it looks like the recruitment profession as a whole is on a parallel quest. Within individual recruitment companies, like Michael Page International, whose CEO Steve Ingham we profile this issue, leadership is well defined.

However, throughout the profession, across in-house to agency and RPO operation, however, there is a leadership gap. Who and where are the individuals who set the standards for professionalism? When we need insight and wisdom, who do we seek out? Who would we want to work for?

Every discipline needs thought leaders, and recruitment is no different. To become that well-respected professional service in the public perception, recruitment needs gravitas and it needs leaders who are willing to advance the profession and the practice. This is a vacancy, or rather a set of vacancies, thatmust be filled.