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Let’s face it, the negative economy has had its impact on us since 2007 but has the media influenced us and stopped us from making sound business decisions? If the media keep sensationalizing the doom and gloom then few of us will ever take the risks needed for achieving growth and success for fear of what the media hint at what is round the corner. And guess what – if nobody grows then the media will have been right and who wants that!!! With this in mind Eagle Headhunters has had to change their approach and make our business more approachable from a cost perspective. We find the top performers for businesses and naturally, due to our labour intensive methods, charge more than your average recruitment company. However we realise that in this economic climate we have to do our bit to help businesses and the economy and so now view flexibility in our terms as absolutely essential. We now offer each individual client a solution that addresses their cost sensitivities as well as maintaining our high level of service and expertise. Being flexible and listening to our clients is what will help growth all round. Taking steps to grow […]

Eagle Headhunters are pleased to announce the launch of their new Marine Division dedicated to headhunting key professionals across the whole of the marine sector. Having recently secured the services of a specialist marine consultant with over 20 years experience within the industry, we now have the expertise to search out the top talent within the fields of Commercial, Superyachting, Leisure and Renewables – more details. Working both Nationally and Internationally with our proactive approach, intense research and market knowledge the team at Eagle Headhunters  are committed to finding you the top candidates. Please contact us to discuss the service further.

Businesses in the US and Europe are warned to prepare for another freezing winter.  Companies are advised to have contingency plans in place to deal with another prolonged spell of bitter weather and the disruptions that heavy snowfall brings with the forecast for another winter of record breaking cold. In December 2010 bad weather in the UK cost the country an estimated £1 billion a day according to the Centre for Economics and Business Research with airports closed, trains and cars brought to a halt and the High Street shops abandoned.  Similar disruption fell across mainland Europe and huge areas of the US. Preparation is called upon to ensure that this year’s forecasts don’t deal a blow for retailers and businesses, jeopardising the wider economic recovery. James Madden the long range weather forecaster for Exacta weather who accurately forecast both the summer and winter weather for the last two years has predicted a 2011/2012 winter possibly worse than last year. His forecasts are based amongst others, on the effects of solar activity, La Nina and El Nino. He forecasts for North America and the Pacific Northwest region to experience a very severe winter.  He quotes “our weather models are also […]

2011 sees more women in the UK Board room but more needs to be done to readdress the balance claims the UK’s Minister for Equalities.   FTSE 100 companies were praised by the Minister, Lynne Featherstone for some progress in adding women to their board level positions but highlighted that more needed to be done to embrace diversity in order to improve their business performance and help to boost the UK economy. Featherstone said “The Government’s priority is to get the economy back into shape. That means dealing with the deficit and stimulating growth. Better use of women could be worth between £15 billion & £23 billion each year, and research shows that companies with higher proportions of women on their boards perform better than their rivals”. Nevertheless, the gender imbalance has improved in 2011 with 22.5% of new FTSE100 directorship appointments going to women.   A study has been commissioned to research the numbers of American and European executives moving to Asia.  Leading Companies from both America and Europe are quickly expanding into the growth markets of APJ (Asia, Pacific, Japan) and the Bric nations (Brazil, Russia, India, China) and taking their top executives with them. Results of the study […]

The International Labour Organization (ILO) has warned that it will take at least five years for employment in advanced economies to return to pre-crisis levels and separately the OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development) said it was critical that rescue plans by Euro leaders were followed through. In its ‘World of Work Report 2011’ the ILO said a stalled global’ economic recovery had begun to “dramatically affect” labour markets. It said 80 million net new jobs would be needed over the next two million years to get back to pre-crisis employment levels. Meanwhile in its latest projections for G20 economies the OECD forecast China’s growth staying well ahead but slipping from 9.3% in 2011 to 8.6% in 2012 compared with the US at  a predicted 1.8% for 2012 and the Euro area a mere 0.3%. Studies are also showing that the workforce market place is becoming much less dynamic with the number of people leaving their jobs voluntarily having halved in the last 13 years. Whether this is because of concerns with moving into new roles or because employers have gradually become more successful at retaining staff has yet to be researched.