Godliman’s Insights covers three areas: practical guidance for asset management firms on hiring well; advice for investment professionals managing their careers; and market commentary on hiring trends across the EMEA region.
The focus is the institutional, wholesale, and retail asset management industry, though the principles on hiring, assessment, and diversity apply more broadly.
Most people spend too long polishing their CV and too little time on what actually matters. Here is a headhunter’s guide to the principles that make the biggest difference.
After 11 subdued quarters, the conditions for senior distribution hiring across UK and EMEA Asset Management have shifted, and hiring demand is back.
Most of what separates a good Search from a cheap one happens behind the scenes. We set out the eight invisible elements that determine whether the hire is the right one – and whether it lasts.
When just one woman is included in a candidate shortlist, her odds of being hired are, statistically, zero. Adding a second changes everything. Here is why.
As Asset Managers bring recruitment in-house to cut costs, interviews have become the default selection tool. But research by Schmidt and Hunter shows that unstructured interviews predict job performance in under 2% of cases. The evidence for a more systematic approach is compelling, and the cost of ignoring it is high.
Mary Ann Sieghart’s The Authority Gap argues that women are not taken as seriously as men at work. We draw out what it means for hiring, and five practical ways to keep that bias off the shortlist.
In the Asset Management sector, diversity is usually a key factor in recruitment processes. But what about inclusion?
After a record 20-year slump, here are six reasons we expected hiring of Asset Management salespeople to surge, from the looming allocation switch to teams cut too thin to cope.
Executive search firms operate very differently to recruitment agencies. This guide explains how to tell them apart, and how to manage headhunters depending on how keen you are to move.
Hiring in EMEA Buy Side sales dropped 43% in 2023 against 2022, the lowest we have recorded in two decades. What drove the slump, and why demand began to return.
‘Off Limits’ is the agreement that stops a Search firm poaching the staff of the very clients it works for. We explain what it covers, why it underpins trust, and why the biggest Search firm is often the most conflicted.
‘One-firm’ firms have a remarkable degree of institutional loyalty and low staff turnover rates. Yet they often find it difficult to hire.
