Sales and marketing staff in demand

RECRUITMENT specialist The People Group has said that demand for senior sales and marketing employees is on the increase, despite the negative economic climate.

The Dublin-based recruitment firm, which deals mainly with companies in the consumer goods, financial services, IT and business-to-business sectors, said it is now seeing companies which “over-reacted” during late 2008 and 2009 by letting a lot of talented and experienced staff go, quietly trying to boost their ranks with an expectation of growth.

“While we have seen a 25% reduction in the number of clients doing business with us this year, we have recorded a 40% increase in the number of roles we are dealing with compared to 2009,” according to The People Group managing director, Colm Buckley. “We are doing more with fewer clients and dealing with more senior roles this year than last.”