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Navigating the Landscape of Energy and Commodities Recruitment: The Role of Executive Search Firms
Navigating the Landscape of Energy and Commodities Recruitment: The Role of Executive Search Firms The energy and commodities sectors are foundational to the global economy, driving everything from...
Understanding the limits
Ahead of Mental Health Awareness Week 2022, we invited our performance and development experts to share insights on how leaders can foster wellbeing in the workplace – and the importance of setting a clear framework for mental health at work. The role of business and...
Will diversity drive the energy transition?
Many factors are driving greater diversity in the energy sector. For Laura Sandys CBE, Chair of the Government's Energy Digitalisation Taskforce, Non-Executive Director of SGN & Energy Systems Catapult, and a founder of POWERful Women, diversity is also...
Building a new energy business during pandemic restrictions
With a career that has tracked the energy transition since its inception, in 2020 Sophie Ducoloner was appointed by Axpo Group, Switzerland's largest producer of renewable energy, to grow its new hub in Singapore. She now leads a team focused on growing the LNG...
Power Trading Mother
Yunji Schuster is a Vattenfall power trader working in Hamburg. Vattenfall is a European energy company, which for more than 100 years has electrified industries, supplied energy to people’s homes and modernised how we live. With 20,000 employees and operations...
Managing growth in an age of employee empowerment
Since 2019, Jeroen Strating has been responsible for developing ExxonMobil’s Budapest operations into a fast-growing global business centre that drives efficiencies, performance and innovation. We caught up with Jeroen to discuss workplace culture and leadership as...
Will Energy Organisations Stem the Tide of “The Great Resignation”?
What is “The Great Resignation?” Anthony Klutz, professor, and psychologist at Texas A&M, coined the phrase last May during an interview with Bloomberg to describe the exodus of people resigning from roles due to new thinking about how and why we work. “The...
ESG and the energy transition are over-riding recruitment requirements
Corporate Social Responsibility (CRI) was once a differentiator for asset managers, investment companies and corporates. Only a few companies addressed it and it very rarely featured in any aspect of recruitment.
Today ESG / CRI permeates every department and function, and it is a routine part of every search and appointment at every level.
Ethnic minority candidates follow a different career path
Expanding the ethnic minority talent pool means hiring people from different backgrounds, with applicants don’t always fit the hiring criteria, may need to get visa sponsorship and don’t understand how to navigate the jobs market.
The interconnection between diversity and sustainability
Prior to co-founding the Aspuna Group, Maria-Yassin Jah was a senior market strategist with a leading commodities business, at the time Europe's largest physical commodity trader, having worked as a market expert and analyst. Falcon Brook spoke to Maria-Yassin about...
The risk of rumour during a turbulent trading cycle
“Bonkers” has become the standard description for the current level of market volatility that we are all grappling with. Every day, my contacts share stories of extraordinary trades and unprecedented losses…