Look close to home to get abroad, says Atkinson
18 July 2012
UK interims are in increasingly high demand overseas, but one can secure these assignments by looking close to home, Jason Atkinson, the managing director of interim provider Russam Interim tells Recruiter.
Wed, 18 Jul 2012
UK interims are in increasingly high demand overseas, but one can secure these assignments by looking close to home, Jason Atkinson, the managing director of interim provider Russam Interim tells Recruiter.
Networking is, of course, key to winning business, Atkinson says, saying that to ensure overseas expansion, “the main thrust of our work is to work with British-based clients with subsidiaries abroad”.He says that in a globalised world opportunities to work overseas may be closer than they appear, adding: “I think there’s some very blurry lines between what is a London role and what is an international role – there are roles that influence London but are based overseas and vice versa.”
Another indicator of this is a statistic Atkinson tells Recruiter he recently came across, that there are 1,000 UK companies with a Hong Kong office.
In a recent survey of 460 interims carried out by Russam, eight out of 10 had completed assignments overseas at some point in their careers, and out of these half had been working for manufacturing or engineering firms, 31% for professional services firms and 27% for banking or financial companies.
However, only 11% of interim assignments in the past year had actually been overseas.
It also shows that European and North American assignments were the most frequent.
Atkinson goes on to say that Russam is targeting 25% overseas placements next year.
UK interims are in increasingly high demand overseas, but one can secure these assignments by looking close to home, Jason Atkinson, the managing director of interim provider Russam Interim tells Recruiter.
Networking is, of course, key to winning business, Atkinson says, saying that to ensure overseas expansion, “the main thrust of our work is to work with British-based clients with subsidiaries abroad”.He says that in a globalised world opportunities to work overseas may be closer than they appear, adding: “I think there’s some very blurry lines between what is a London role and what is an international role – there are roles that influence London but are based overseas and vice versa.”
Another indicator of this is a statistic Atkinson tells Recruiter he recently came across, that there are 1,000 UK companies with a Hong Kong office.
In a recent survey of 460 interims carried out by Russam, eight out of 10 had completed assignments overseas at some point in their careers, and out of these half had been working for manufacturing or engineering firms, 31% for professional services firms and 27% for banking or financial companies.
However, only 11% of interim assignments in the past year had actually been overseas.
It also shows that European and North American assignments were the most frequent.
Atkinson goes on to say that Russam is targeting 25% overseas placements next year.
