Changing demands for skills of HR professionals_2
24 October 2012
Companies hiring HR professionals have shifted their requirements for new recruits over the last couple of years, as roles move closer to the core of the business.
Thu, 16 Feb 2012Companies hiring HR professionals have shifted 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 & 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 more towards actually how are we 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 looking for candidates who “are business first, HR second” – and this trend is also picked up on by David Mason, the head of resourcing (UK and Europe) at RBS. In addition to his comments for Recruiter’s HR sector analysis, in the February edition, out 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, see the sector analysis in the new edition of Recruiter, out 17 February.
James Lawson, manager of HR, finance and procurement & 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 more towards actually how are we 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 looking for candidates who “are business first, HR second” – and this trend is also picked up on by David Mason, the head of resourcing (UK and Europe) at RBS. In addition to his comments for Recruiter’s HR sector analysis, in the February edition, out 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, see the sector analysis in the new edition of Recruiter, out 17 February.
