The Future for Senior Finance Recruitment

The World changes very fast but not necessarily the world of senior finance! I’ve been a Chartered Accountant since 1994 so I’ve seen first hand the more sedate pace of change at the senior level. That said there are things about the recruitment market that I expect to develop further and the trends we have seen over the last 20 years are likely to continue onwards.

Lets take a look at some of those and extrapolate along and see if we can see something of what the future has in store…

The Internet. Well this is one that has really changed recruitment around, gone and long gone are the days when you would write a CV and post it sometimes with a hand written covering letter then wait patiently for a postal response. The trend here is going to continue with more and more web based applications to link together employers and employees.

The Robot Headhunter Something which we have yet to see is the automated head hunter which scans sites like Linkedin then approaches potential employees rather than the over way around. I can see it coming provided an opt in system can be found so you can let people know if you don’t mind being approached given certain criteria. It would be flattering to have jobs pitched at you rather than having to make the pitch yourself. The idea is interesting lets see if it takes off.

The Automated CV investigator — Recruiters have amazingly little time to sift through CV’s even just a few seconds of scanning looking for keywords after software has pre-scanned. YES that is how UK agencies already operate in 2019! But there is more potential here. Recuiters could go further and pull the accounts and web statistics from potential employees CV’s and in doing so build up a model of how their employers they have worked for have grown financially and Web Traffic wise. The potential is great but then so is the potential negative impacts of working for employers who pay well but don’t necessarily perform well.

This could be a winner of an approach as successful businesses owe their success often to their key employees.

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