Headhunters

As the SRI industry has developed, headhunters have emerged to enable organisations to resource the increasingly specialist SRI roles that they need to fill.

Three factors combine to make the job of SRI headhunting an increasingly sophisticated and specialist one:

• Growth in the SRI product area
• Current market turbulence – and the hiatus in hiring caused by the credit crunch
• Diversity of specialist skills needed –the SRI industry has traditionally recruited from relatively homogenous backgrounds.  However, finding individuals with the combined skills (investment analysis and sustainability awareness) required to execute increasingly sophisticated SRI strategies is a task that requires professionally targeted searches