Happy New Year
Welcome back to work, everybody!
Hopefully anyone reading this is feeling hopeful and anticipatory as to what 2010 has in store for us all, given the, er, ‘challenges’ of the past year. Yes, it’s cold and bleak outside with yet MORE snow apparently on the way (those snowy scenes stopped looking picturesque and more like a pain in the neck after the first day of disruption, travel chaos, and falling over on the ice) but we now move into a new decade, so let’s put 2009 behind us, rub our crystal ball, and peer into what could be in store for us all this year, as we stand on the precipice of the next decade….
Well, peering in thus far, it’s got to be looking more promising than this time last year already! After receiving a flurry of last minute pre-Christmas briefs like a light snow shower (ah ha! the welcome scent of yearly budgets being used up), ENI have started 2010 in a much more positive place than this time last year.
Whilst we braced ourselves and got our heads down last January, ready for the crunch and the ensuing unholy matrimony of frozen recruitment budgets and countless redundant candidates, this year has started on a much more positive note. I for one definitely feel that, along with the (metaphorical) snowdrops, those promised ‘green shoots’ have started to appear, and are slowly poking their tips out of the snowy smothering blanket of the recession, with signs of life appearing in the form of a slow but steady flow of new roles.
Whilst it would be overly optimistic to assume that we will be returning to the salad days of pre September 2008 any time soon, the big freeze has started to thaw slightly, with budgets being unfrozen and increasing amounts of activity, which is good news for us all. The face of research and of recruitment may have changed forever (and for the better), but in the face of more clement market conditions, hopefully we can all look forward to a more promising spring.
So…anyone in the mindset of ‘New Year, New Job’?!
