No prizes for guessing that overall, it is an employers’ recruitment market in London right now. The unseemly scrabble for bums on seats of the late ’90s is over and we are seeing the results of that over-optimistic gearing up in the redundancies and freezes of those firms, where the economic climate was just not as sustainable as they thought.
But is it as bad as some would say? Or has is just got back to ‘normal’; the last couple of years have been as good as it gets in the world of recruitment. Recruitment strategy is back in balance and not driven by semi-conscious momentum. Law firms are thinking about the why’s and the who’s a lot more than the when’s and the what’s. Management consultants are having a field day and strategy review translates into changes in management and calculated recruitment.
