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Market Overview
The recruitment market for HR professionals struck a positive note this year and showed some clear signs of structural growth over the course of 2006.

The changing economic environment, with its now candidate driven labour market, resulted in an increased demand for some specialist HR roles. Throughout the year organisations focussed on hiring HR professionals for functions such as compensation and benefits (in order to develop competitive packages), recruitment (in order to attract the highest quality candidates), and competency management (in order to retain and get the best out of existing staff).

Over the course of last year, the HR discipline itself has been undergoing important transformations in order to meet the changing needs and expectations of the business. HR professionals and managers are increasingly expected to have a thorough business understanding – in addition to their HR expertise – in order to be able to position themselves as true business partners. Unfortunately, most organisations confirm that the recruitment of highly qualified generalist HR professionals with five to ten years’ experience and a true ‘business partner state of mind’ remains a major challenge.

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Robert Walters is a leading international recruitment consultancy, placing high calibre professionals into permanent, contract and temporary positions at all levels of seniority. With a developed network of 27 offices across 14 countries, we work with leading investment banks, multinational corporations, smaller enterprises, business start-ups and the public sector.

Every year we produce a comprehensive Global Salary Survey to provide you with information about salary packages and the latest market trends across an extensive range of market sectors including:

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