This year of 2008 has been a banner year for The Charis Group!  We have seen significant growth in the industrial safety products industry (Personal Protective Equipment also known as PPE) division our of firm.  We also have received more candidates being hired from outside of the Safety, Fire Safety, Homeland Security, Law Enforcement, EMS, and Road Safety Industries.  Actually had some new positions within the Cleanroom Industry that we have not seen for a few years.

We have placed more upper management candidates in the disciplines of sales, marketing and product development this year than we have in the past three years. 

Our clients still prefer a candidate that has maybe three to four career changes in their careers, good communicators, proven experience in outside sales, high energy and high ethics. 

Candidates are looking for a new challenge in their careers and to leverage them as well.  They also are looking for security more than ever.  However I don’t know of any company that can actually guarantee that security, at least not in today’s turbulent times. 

We are starting to get good feedback from our clients for more hiring needs in 2009.  In a recession this is the time companies ramp up their new product development so that once the recession is one they are ready with new products to beat out their competition.  Also this is the time companies will hire sales people with less experience within the industry because they have more time to train and cross train their sales people. 

Nancy Sheaffer

President of The Charis Group

www.thecharisgroupllc.com