Headhunters say prospects for executive hiring are bright for the next six months, particularly for women and men with business development and sales and marketing skills tied to healthcare, high technology, life sciences, business services and energy/utilities, a Norwalk outfit says.
ExecuNet said Tuesday its latest Executive Recruiter Confidence survey sampled 168 executive recruiters and found that 39 percent were confident the executive hiring market would improve in the next six months.
Although one-in-five companies expect to add executive jobs in the next six months, one-in-four plan to freeze executive hiring and take a “wait and see” attitude for the next six months.
“What’s clear is that there continue to be pockets of opportunity in this slow growth market, but they are narrowing, as more and more companies wait to see what changes in world growth or hope the clarity in Washington will reshape the future soon,” said ExecuNet President and Chief Economist Mark Anderson said in a statement.
