Welcome to the latest issue of Human Resourcefulness, the Digby Morgan Newsletter. I’m delighted to report that we’ve taken on board your feedback from previous editions and are bringing you more news and views from the market along with the recent developments within the HR sector. The good news is that in line with the economy, opportunities in HR are in abundance. We’re seeing new positions being created at all levels with talent management now even further up the business agenda for the vast majority of our major clients. If it ever went away, the war for talent is back with a vengeance and, at some levels, the supply of able, business-focused HR practitioners lags way behind demand. This is having a noticeable effect on salaries but is also prompting employers to take a more innovative approach to retaining and attracting talent. On this note, I was pleased to attend the recent Executive Grapevine Talent Management conference at Vinopolis and it was interesting and gratifying to hear speakers and delegates alike promoting the whole talent concept. There’s no doubt that events such as this – coupled with the fact that there’s now a myriad of job titles that include the term ‘talent’ - go a long way to help promote the overall value of the HR function and the key strategic role it plays in delivering bottom line, commercial success. Valued Relationships From a resourcing perspective, we’re finding that high potential employees are being retained more effectively and, consequently, that search is becoming increasingly effective across a much broader range of roles as genuinely good people are not looking to move. This in turn means that despite the hype of online recruitment, recruitment process outsourcing and so on, the true value of a long term, positive and valued relationship between client, candidate and recruitment consultancy has never been so high. For the second year running, I’m delighted to report that Digby Morgan is to sponsor HR Magazine’s prestigious HR Director of the Year award. As one of the judges for the category awards last year, I was very impressed with the standard of entry and the growing bottom line awareness of many of the HR functions that had submitted entries. In conjunction with this, I was also pleased to see a number of new faces in HR Magazine’s ‘100 most influential people in HR’ feature. We’re also delighted to be sponsoring the City Personnel Group’s inaugural annual conference in May. There are some excellent speakers lined up for this event and we feel the conference will provide a unique opportunity to create a forum where all of London’s financial and professional services sector organisations can be represented. As always, we welcome any feedback, ideas or opinions so please don’t hesitate to contact me directly. In the meantime, I trust you’ll enjoy this issue of Human Resourcefulness. John Maxted Managing Director

Dona Battat, Digby Morgan’s director responsible for leading the company’s City division, takes a look at the latest happenings in the Square Mile in 2007.
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What do you call a recruitment market that just keeps on getting tougher? Well, one short answer is the HR market in Australia. “We’ve had a tight market, we’ve had a firm market, we’ve seen acute shortages and it just keeps on getting increasingly ‘talent tight," explains David Owens from Digby Morgan’s associate Australian company, HR Partners.
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Nicola Grimshaw, Digby Morgan’s director responsible for leading the commerce division, gives Human Resourcefulness an update on the state of the market in her sector.
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One of the key roles HR has to play is to put in place the right mechanisms to develop and manage talent. Jane Saunders of Orion Partners, a leading HR transformation consultancy, has seen a disappointing lack of evidence that HR practices what it preaches.
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The interim market for HR professionals has exploded over the last couple of years with unprecedented levels of growth across all skill sets. But, is it going to last or are we looking at an imminent bursting of the interim bubble? Gordon Whyte, head of Digby Morgan’s interim subsidiary, HR Interims, reports from the front line.
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In a move that reflects the burgeoning HR market, Digby Morgan has made further senior and strategic appointments in both its City and Commerce divisions.
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One of the world’s leading independent providers of solutions for long-term savings and pensions, Skandia, recently undertook a major business restructure. Central to this was a restructuring of the senior management team and moving the business to a shared services model from its original structure based on four business units with individual groups such as HR, IT, Marketing and Finance scattered throughout the units with
no coherent structure.
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HR Resourcing is Digby Morgan’s contingent HR recruitment company focusing on entry to mid level appointments. The man responsible for running it, Matthew Chester, takes a look at the career opportunities for junior HR professionals in the shared services era.
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Digby Morgan enjoys a highly constructive and mutually beneficial relationship with the Recruitment & Employment Confederation (REC) and has agreed to help it find out what employers really think about the UK recruitment marketplace and their own recruitment processes.
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Delivering ‘high performance’ has never been as crucial for both corporate and personal development as it is in today’s competitive commercial market. Darren Hockaday runs a consultancy called Inner Win that works closely with Digby Morgan and seeks to help individuals meet their full potential and deliver this sought after high performance.
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• HR Resourcing is ‘Hot in
• the City’

• HR still on the up down
• under

• The World of Commerce

• Cobbler’s Shoes for HR

• An Interim Update

• New Faces

• Skandia’s Interim Policy

• HR Careers in the Shared
• Services Era

• What do you Really Think of
• the Recruitment Industry?

• Delivering ‘high performance’

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