Editor's Leader September 2016

Editor's Leader September 2016
Thu, 25 August 2016 | By DeeDee Doke

FROM SEPTEMBER'S RECRUITER MAGAZINE 

Is M&A activity in recruitment dead? Oh no, it isn’t! Randstad’s headline-grabbing $429m purchase of Monster shrieked ‘thrust’ from the rooftops. And UK stalwart InterQuest also put its money into building a bigger beast with its acquisition of boutique professional services search firm Rees Draper Wright.
 

Agility has also been vibrantly evident recently, particularly in recruitment firms that relied heavily on oil & gas for their bread and butter.

On the heels of Airswift’s evolution into infrastructure and global mobility, Spencer Ogden has revealed its own trek into ‘the final frontier’ and cleverly, is capitalising on its Singapore and Houston locations to spin into a new direction. (I can hear the London to Houston side of an early conversation: “Houston, we have a problem. Oil & gas is drying up. What else have you got going in Houston? NASA [National Aeronautics and Space Administration]? Space? Aerospace? Engage warp factor!”

Recruiters are living proof that when the going gets tough, the tough get going.

DeeDee Doke, editor


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