OREANDA-NEWS  Interviewed representatives of recruitment agencies record difficulties with the selection of top managers for Russian organizations. The main reason is the departure of a significant number of managers abroad, the secondary reason is that companies often need rare managerial competencies now. In order to "close" the necessary positions, companies are ready to increase salary offers, rebuild the structure of departments or meet candidates working remotely or even for other organizations. There is a shortage of top managers in the Russian labor market, according to the interviewed recruitment agencies. They call emigration the main reason for this, but the growth of demand, especially for new competencies, also plays a role.

Olga Voroshilova, a partner of the recruitment company Cornerstone, notes that over the past year the demand for top managers has grown. "If you look at the number of requests, there are almost twice as many," she says. First of all, managers are looking for companies engaged in oil production, metals, chemical production, agribusiness. According to Cornerstone, the average term for closing such a vacancy has doubled — from three to six months.

The demand growth was superimposed by the supply crisis — as the managing partner of the recruitment agency Ruspartners Dina Akimov notes, a significant number of managers left the country — and, unlike middle-level employees, they left towards the end of last year.