The vote to
leave the EU last week has obviously caused a lot of uncertainty in the
markets, with the pound suffering (although recovering a little), no clear
leadership in sight and a lot of general anxiety and unrest across the nation.
It’s not
for us to state what’s right or wrong or try to predict what might happen in
the future, but if you’re a candidate looking (or thinking about looking) for new
marketing and business development roles in the professional services sector,
here are our thoughts on the last week and how you might be affected:
The general
(early) consensus seems to be that actually a significant number of
professional services firms could be in even higher demand by their clients,
providing advice on how to negotiate the months (and perhaps years) ahead. This
is particularly the case for law and accountancy firms, many who had
pre-planned for Friday’s result by providing 24 hour advice straight away
afterwards.
For property and management consultancies it is less clear and the
real estate sector especially could be more seriously affected (as investments
go on hold) but it is too early to tell. What we can say is that the first week
post- Brexit has been very much business as usual.
In fact,
over the past 6 or 7 days we’ve seen an above average number of new roles
registered with us across all types
of professional partnership and all
levels from Assistant to Director. Encouragingly some of these have been new
clients to us with brand new positions. There don’t appear to have been any
knee jerk reactions and we haven’t had any reports of existing roles suddenly
going on hold. If anything, there are mutterings that firms might need to
increase their marketing, BD teams and other non-fee earning teams.
So our
message to anyone either actively on the market or thinking about looking for a
new role is that: we know it’s early days but as we stand, nothing has changed
and it remains a good and strong market for Professional Services marketers.
Long may it continue!
Giles
Taylor
Director
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