Migratory Patterns of Interim Management

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It is increasingly apparent that more and more executives and professionals are moving into interim management, forsaking permanent employment for the flexibility and challenge it offers. However, Interim Management has also become a realistic opportunity to keep professionally active between employment and over the past ten years Talentmark has witnessed a paradigm shift in the willingness of ‘job seekers’ to take on such projects. Human migration has occurred throughout human history and continues today at macro and micro levels. Whilst migration occurs for a myriad of reasons, it always involves the movement of a person or a group of people from one place to another. In employment terms, ‘voluntary migration’ refers to an individual that resigns to take up residence with a new employer, whereas ‘involuntary migration’ is used to describe a company initiating a redundancy or change process. Population stress in any sense often creates the opportunity for change and this is commonly followed by plateau rebalancing typically observed in a parabolic curve of supply and demand. As a concept, Interim Management began in the 1970s in the Netherlands as a result of the way that employment law was structured; long notice periods restricted corporate flexibility, preventing swift access to Talent. Flexible contracts for services emerged and were soon widely adopted across Europe and beyond. Like all change, it is the pioneering few who dare to go where few have gone before. Whether intentional or unintentional, others will follow by example as the risks become more acceptable. The California Gold Rush in the mid-1800s caused a mass migration of people heading West following news that prosperity and a new life and could be obtained with comparative ease. To be sure, at first gold was readily available and nuggets could be picked up off the ground with little

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