Executive Job Creation Reveals Corporate Growth Plans

Posted By: Joseph Daniel McCool
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Executive recruiters are expressing more confidence in the executive employment market as they forecast management hiring activity over the next six months.

But now, for the first time in well over two years, executive recruiters are considering or are already rebuilding their recruiting and research teams to keep pace with this anticipated surge in new business.

Percentage of executive search firms planning to hire additional professional staff — next 3 months

In January, ExecuNet's benchmark Search Firm Hiring Index revealed that 34 percent of the 188 responding executive recruiters indicated they would be hiring to bulk up their own recruiting resources over the next three months.

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Joseph Daniel McCool's avatar Joseph Daniel McCool
Joseph Daniel McCool is senior contributing editor with ExecuNet and principal of management recruiting/succession advisory firm The McCool Group. He is also the author of Deciding Who Leads: How Executive Recruiters Drive, Direct & Disrupt the Global Search for Leadership Talent, recognized widely as "one of the best business books of 2008," and its Brazilian Portuguese translation, Escolhendo Líderes, published in June 2010.