ACCORDING to the Association of Professional Staffing Contractors, activity in the permanent recruitment market – measuring both vacancy and placement numbers – fell from August to January but is now picking up.
Engineering is experiencing the strongest surge, followed by finance and accounting. IT recruitment has fallen. Interestingly, a reported downbeat market for banking and insurance recruitment runs counter to Spinnaker’s experience in the marine & energy insurance market in which we are very busy at present (contact Lisa Bolton for current underwriting, broking and claims roles and a couple of very interesting in house roles with major shipping employers – a head of legal & insurance in Europe and an insurance director role in North America – [email protected].)