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CREDIT & RISK MANAGEMENT MARKET COMMENTARY, Q2 2021
Market Overview INTRODUCTION After a frantic start to the year in the Risk job market in Q1, Q2 saw the hiring pace pick up even further, with a quarter-on-quarter increase in job flow of 22% observed by our consultants. A number of contributing factors can be attributed to this rise; firstly an exponential increase in…
Read More10,000 Black Interns
Bruin is proud to be taking part in the 2021 10,000 Black Interns programme. This initiative aims to transform the horizons and prospects of young Black people in the United Kingdom by offering paid work experience across a wide range of industries. The aim is to provide training and development opportunities and to create a…
Read MoreThe Skills Workshop
Bruin is proud to be one of sixty firms involved in The Skills Workshop, launched to create a more inclusive talent pipeline in the investment and savings industry. • The Skills Workshop is aimed at university students to help gain insight, knowledge and direction to help start their financial career and build social capital •…
Read MoreBruin HR Forum: Positive Mental Health & Returning to the Office
The Bruin HR forum is designed to provide open dialogue with HR and line managers. This session will explore how to maintain positive mental health of employees as we move towards returning to the office. This online forum will be run by Bruin & Hazel Sawyers, a mental health first aid professional who is an…
Read MoreMajority of Investment Management Failing on Transparency Over Support For Working Parents
Only a small minority of the UK’s leading investment management firms are disclosing how they support working parents, at a time when the UK workforce has a record number of dual career parents working full time and as coronavirus increases the challenge parents face in balancing work and parental responsibilities. This is the key finding…
Read MoreSALES & MARKETING MARKET COMMENTARY, Q1 2021
Market Overview INTRODUCTION The start of 2021 can be described in many ways; rejuvenated; resilient; refreshing. Simply put, after a very inconsistent 2020 the recruitment market bounced back strongly and has set up a positive year ahead. We believe that the reason for this was two-fold. The first cause is from what we are coining “COVID fatigue” – the idea that organisations, hiring managers and business…
Read MoreUK & REGIONAL MARKET COMMENTARY, Q1 2021
Market Overview INTRODUCTION We have identified some striking trends within the market this quarter and pride ourselves on bringing you the most up-to-date information from the financial and professional services sector. Overall the message remains a positive one despite another lockdown in the UK. With substantial growth across the marketplace, candidates and clients have become…
Read MoreLEGAL MARKET COMMENTARY, Q1 2021
Market Overview The second half of 2020 was a comparatively quieter market for in-house legal roles. We saw a reduction in open roles and noticed that whilst in-house teams had seen an increase in workload, overall headcount in the main remained flat apart from a few replacement hires. We have continued to speak with a…
Read MorePROJECTS & CHANGE MARKET COMMENTARY, Q1 2021
Market Overview INTRODUCTION The past 12 months has seen the global workforce forced to change it’s working practices drastically. These contingency plans are now the future of how asset managers will engage with their workforce as it has shown both productivity at work and a work-life balance can go hand-in-hand. There was a sense of apprehension about how 2021 would…
Read MoreINVESTMENT & FRONT OFFICE MARKET COMMENTARY, Q1 2021
Market Overview Equities After a turbulent 2020, Global Equities started the new year positively as COVID-19 Vaccine rollouts motored along in the UK, US and in Europe. The NASDAQ and Dow Jones continued to test all-time high’s throughout the quarter, whilst the FTSE100 rose on the back of an extremely efficient Vaccination programme but dropped in the latter parts of the…
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