Antal Russia News

Luc Jones, Partner in charge of Antal Russia’s IT/Telecoms recruitment practice

When a downturn hits the global markets, one of the first areas to fall victim to the slump is information technology. Russia is no exception to the rule although whilst the banking, finance, real estate and construction markets collapsed in early autumn, many in the IT industry believed themselves to be immune as life continued as normal; at least until the end of 2008.

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Tatiana Gracheva, Manager of Antal-Laurence Simons (International Legal Recruitment)

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Law firms

While there are signs of practice/law firms recruiting once more by showing interest in professional lawyers who can potentially join their team, there are still some companies still planning some redundancies. However overall the mood is positive reflected in the fact that new Western legal companies are making tentative steps into the Russian market and are opening up gradually. Many firms are going through a restructuring process, as can be seen in M&A activity.

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Татьяна Грачева,  менеджер Antal-Laurence Simons (юридический рекрутмент)

Юридические фирмы

Юридические фирмы постепенно оправляются от кризиса и проявляют больший интерес к грамотным специалистам, которые могут присоединиться к их команде. Однако в некоторых компаниях все еще планируются сокращения персонала.

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Anna Titova, Consultant for Antal Russia’s Marketing department

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Companies rarely make online marketing a standalone marketing function. Instead, knowledge of online marketing and promotion tools is considered very much a part of the skills requirement for general marketing candidates. Online marketing therefore is often included in the responsibilities of marketing professionals such as content manager, PR manager, marketing manager etc despite the fact they often o not have the dedicated experience required. Alternatively this activity is instead outsourced to a specialist agency.

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Анна Титова, консультант департамента  Маркетинга рекрутинговой компании Antal Russia

Направление онлайн маркетинга в России еще очень молодое, и компании редко выделяют его в отдельную функцию. Однако все чаще в перечень требований к кандидатам на маркетинговые позиции включается владение инструментами онлайн маркетинга и интернет-продвижения.

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Olga Ivanova, Principal Consultant for Antal Russia’s financial department

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Recruitment activity in the finance sector has consistently and encouragingly grown in the last few months, especially so in the demand for financial controllers and ‘junior’ financial directors. However in four cases out of five this need to recruit had come about to replace employees who have failed to meet expectations, or those who have left the company. The irony is that the former were mainly taken on in the summer, when employers were tempted by the availability of unemployed financial professionals on the market and therefore secured their service cheaply on comparatively low salaries. However it soon became clear that these people did not have the requisite competences required, and so employers have now started to ‘overhaul’ replacing them with more appropriately qualified ones.

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Ольга Иванова, ведущий консультант департамента Финансов рекрутинговой компании Antal Russia

Последние месяцы мы наблюдаем увеличение рекрутинговой активности со стороны работодателей в области финансов. Особенно возрос спрос на финансовых контролеров и невысоких финансовых директоров. Однако примерно в 80% случаев компании ищут замену сотрудникам, которыми они не довольны или ушедшим профессионалам. Летом работодатели столкнулись с ситуацией, когда на рынке оказалось большое количество свободных специалистов в области финансов, которых можно было привлечь за сравнительно небольшие деньги и они этой возможностью пользовались. Однако, уже сейчас стало понятно, что таким людям не достаточно компетенции и компании принимают решение об их замене на более опытных.

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