Search Firms Remain Cautious When it Comes to Rebuilding Recruiting Teams

Posted By: Joseph Daniel McCool
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While two-thirds of executive recruiters are confident the executive employment market activity will increase in the coming months, most remain cautious when it comes to rebuilding the recruiting and research teams they were forced to cut during the recession.

In April, ExecuNet's benchmark Search Firm Hiring Index revealed that 21 percent of 192 responding executive recruiters indicated they would be adding new professional research and consulting staff over the next three months, down five points from March.

Percentage of Executive Search Firms Planning to Hire Additional Professional Staff — Next 3 Months

Executive recruiters are mostly waiting until their existing teams are fully utilized on search assignments from corporate clients and letting the pace of corporate management hiring dictate the timing of new professional hires for their own firms.

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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.