RPO and Talent Management Blog by Ochre House | Ochre Talk

Gender diversity, especially in the Financial Services sector, has rapidly emerged as one of the biggest challenges facing British business today. If the current rate of women entering the board room was maintained it wouldn’t be for another 65 years that there was even parity in numbers. Simply put by McKinsey recently in published research: Organisations with women in top management outperform those without. There are a plethora of other reasons too, why a lack of women is bad for business and in turn for the British economy, not least of which are competitive advantage and sustainability. Britain is, after all, completely reliant on our financial services sector in the global economy, and that is unlikely to change much to a meaningful degree, despite the backlash over the credit crunch and perhaps imminent legislation regarding banks.
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Why are some recruitment agencies still picking fights with clients and RPO providers and bemoaning their shrinking “slice of the pie”, when the whole resourcing world is changing around them and they risk missing out completely?  There is of course a very valuable role for the best recruitment agencies to play and as an attraction channel for external talent, it will remain key.  Those agencies that focus on their candidates and clients’ needs and provide great service, will of course continue to thrive. Read full post

Talent Management has now become a trigger for getting HR taken seriously in the business and for making leaders sit up and pay attention. When we say it we feel a bit more strategic and everyone nods sagely.
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