What we’re listening to……….
It would be great if this was a post about us listening to regular economic podcasts straight from CNN or listening to some self improvement tapes, but it isn’t. Here’s a selection of bands getting playtime in the Capital2 Solutions offices:
Kings of Leon
The Cribs
Chalatans
Radiohead
Vanessa Paradis
Joy Division
The Jam
IndoChine
The Ramones
The Streets
Happy Mondays
LTJ Bukem
Arctic Monkeys
Oasis
Air
Cocoon
Feist
Killers
Libertines
Capital2 bosses speak at HEC Paris
February 12th, Capital2 Solutions founder Sam Kirby gave a talk to the 2009 MBA class at HEC Paris (France’s top business school). The subject was the Hiring Markets for 2009 / 2010 and the hour long presentation gave rise to some healthy questions and debate at the end of the talk.
Recruitment Market 2009
So how are things shaping up for 2009?
Well, there’s overwhelming consensus that hiring will slow down across the board. Profits are down, therefore budgets are down therefore hiring slows….. logical. Our core markets of banking and high technology are broad enough to enable us to react effectively to this, but we’d be stupid to think that next year will be easy.
How does this affect the way we work?
Well generally in tough economic periods, there are a lot of candidates on the market (redundancies etc), and fewer new jobs being created. The inverse is roughly true in boom times, where there are lots of jobs compared to the number of suitable candidates. This means we as a company have to do 3 main things:
- We work harder to find new roles to fill, and try to keep tight hold of our existing (hiring) client base.
- We have to ensure that the ratio between being asked to hire a role and actually filling it is as close as possible to perfection.
- We need to maintain an accurate and large database of active candidates to ensure we react quickly in the event of being retained by a client. This can even take the form of partnerships with 3rd party researchers or RPO companies.
So we will be affected. We service the banking and technology markets, both of which will be squeezing suppliers (ie us) hard over 2009. That said, our management team have already come through one serious recession – no reason they can’t come out the other side of this one smiling too!!!!
Euro 2008
No England, but our French offices are rooting for les bleus!!!
Viera’s potential loss through injury is a worry though, as playing with Makelele + one other defensive midfielder leaves France with only 3 attackers on the field. Not to mention the group of DEATH!
New Look Website!
OK so it isn’t a massive change, but still…………………
- The spinning musical brain has been taken off. Although we liked the concept, a lot of people on WANs or with limited memory PCs found it took a long time to load.
- Improved search capability….. we were previously limited to 3 jobs per search…. not enough. You can now search our entire live job database worldwide.
- Link to french version… our home page is in english, with a link through to the version française
Visit us and feel free to give us your comments: www.capital2solutions.com
Paris office up and running……..
Well finally we have sorted our offices out in Paris and have opened the HQ of our french operation in the über-trendy 18th Arrondissement, Montmartre.
We are therefore within easy striking distance of La Défense and the 8th Arrondissement where the vast majority of our french clients are based, but we’re still able to situate ourselves in a building with ‘cachet’ and in an area in which we can put down roots i.e. not being based in 25m² of charmless business suites somewhere!
Next stop Germany on our way to global domination (cue maniacal laghter) mwa ha ha ha haaaaaaa!
Environmental Issues / Carbon Footprints / Green Stuff
We here at Capital2 Solutions are a fairly committed bunch; committed to success and committed to delivering to our clients and candidates. We are also committed to running our business ethically and in an environmentally friendly way, here’s a list of some of the ways in which we try to limit the impact we have on the world around us:
1) Travel. Our international markets mean that staff often have to travel to meetings in other countries across Europe. Sometimes these meetings are called at short notice which necessitates the use of air travel. However every trip on the plane is off set by the next one being done via public transport… train usually.
2) Company car policy….. all company vehicles are to be as low on emmissions as possible. No 4X4s or Ferraris unfortunately.
3) All waste paper products are re-cycled and printing is kept to a minimum, all our paper products come from sustainable forests.
4) Any hardware is sent to specialists in order to be re-configured and sold on, rather than dumped.
5) Our research team use the internet extensively. However instead of the ubiquitous Google we endeavour to use Blackle.com which is comparatively more energy efficient.
6) We endeavour to use suppliers with a similar level of commitment to the environment as we have.
These are small steps, but every little helps and whilst we are far from being activists, we feel that everyone and every company has a duty to minimise the negative physical impact they have on the world.
Félicitations
Congratulations from all associated with Capital2 Solutions to Mathieu Bruckert and his partner Sabrina who have recently had a baby boy called Lucas.
All well wishers feel free to email Mathieu direct as he will be picking up emails whilst on parental leave….. that’s dedication for you! However given the fact he will be surviving on little sleep, we take no responsibility for the sanity of his replies.
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