Market Overview
Organisations are achieving increasing success by placing human resources at the heart of their strategy. Therefore, HR executives need to be increasingly commercially focused, innovative, adaptable to change, and ready to embrace new challenges in order to succeed. In this context, the role of the HR division now encompasses training (helping management to install strong leadership), recruitment (identifying and retaining executives with high potential), and facilitating change both on an individual and a collective basis. As a result, skilled professionals in the fields of career management, change and project management have been high in demand.

At the same time, the HR function is expected to play the role of a business partner supporting other departments in the organisation as well as with international development. HR managers are expected to deliver higher value added performances and contribute to strategic direction. They are becoming increasingly ‘client and business oriented’.

The HR department is clearly a pivotal part of a business in a market that is candidate oriented. We are thus observing a growing need for skilled candidates with backgrounds in international management.

During 2006, compensation and benefits managers, labour law managers, and social planning and analysis managers have been highly sought after.

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