20.03.2012
On the 15th of March, Warwick, Oxford, ESCP, ESADE, LSE and HEC alumni clubs organized a joint event. The event was held in the Le Pain Quotidien and has become a regular meeting of top universities and business schools graduates who live and work in Russia.
The main subject matter of the first spring meeting of the club members was "The Human Resources market in 2012".
Michael Page Russia consultants were the special guests of the evening. Victor Kireev, a Manager in Michael Page's Sales & Marketing division and Vahan Darbinyan, a Senior Consultant in the Finance & Accounting division, covered the topic “The current labor market needs”. The discussion between the audience and the consultants was in a question and answer format.
Victor opened by explaining: "All trends in the labor market depend on the correlation between supply and demand at a particular time. At the moment, the labor market is characterized by two main trends:
- business partners offering concrete solutions to the problems are required, not employees who mere perform a task and add no further value;
- there are difficulties in moving specialisation. If candidates prior the crisis could easily move from a medical company to a FMCG company and so on, now employees with experience and specific skills in the area they've worked are needed. If a candidate changes the sector or scope of his role, he has to be ready to earn less money".
Vahan Darbinyan agreed with his colleague and, in response to a question from a club member, appealed not to forget that the business schools give a broad view, structured approach, good case studies to their students, but any employer hires a person who will be able to solve the problems, not the person with "MBA grad” on his CV.
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