If it’s statistics you’re after, you might be interested to know that between January 2004 and 2006 EJ Company Secretarial successfully placed 216 company secretaries into 143 companies spanning 15 sectors.

It has often been commented that clients prefer our consultative, focused and honest approach. A carefully managed recruitment process always produces the best results and provides the foundation of longer-term professional relationships.Some of the most respected names in world business keep coming back asking us to work with them..

And here comes the science...

When we look at the general trends over, say, a 12-month period the bulk of company secretarial recruitment comes from multinational organisations, the large retail and investment banks and the leading professional practices where there is a need to increase the size of the team or replace someone that is leaving. However, taking a closer look, it becomes apparent that an increasing number of instructions are coming through from small and medium-sized organisations which are recruiting a company secretary for the first time and/or need support during periods of corporate activity or strategic change.

Whether these trends will continue depends to a great extent on the stability of UK (and world) economic conditions. The recent rally on the world’s stock markets has created a confident environment for high profile mergers and acquisitions. The knock-on effect has been a marked increase in recruitment activity levels within the major banks, insurance companies and the ‘Top 4’ accountancy practices – often used by us a ‘barometer’ for projected levels of recruitment activity within other market sectors.

On a more local level, constant regulatory and legislative changes and the increasing burden of corporate governance has forced companies to consider recruiting additional resource to ensure they remain fully compliant at all times.