British Company Tops Business Poll in Moscow.

LONDON -- British-based global executive recruitment firm Antal International - which has worked with thousands of multi-national and domestic Russian clients across Russia for the past 13 years - has come top of an influential business poll carried out by the Moscow-based business information service RBC.

Antal is ranked as the number one permanent mid-level quality recruitment company within Moscow based on the volume of placements made in 2006 and is amongst the top five recruitment companies in Russia, providing highly-qualified managers across a wide range of industry sectors including financial services, technology and engineering.

Commenting on the poll, Tremayne Elson, managing partner, Antal International Russia explains:

"There's been a seismic change in the way our clients are searching and recruiting mid-level talent by casting their net much wider in order to capture an ever decreasing pool of suitably qualified talent.

"In practice, what this means is that the majority of our most recent client assignments have involved taking an instruction in one territory, sourcing potential talent in several other territories and placing the candidate in a completely different territory from the one where the instruction emanated.

"Globalisation of the workforce has therefore become a giant game of hopscotch for most of our clients and it's certainly true of Russian multi-nationals that are desperate for Western-educated and experienced middle managers," observes Elson.

As a result, Antal International was one of the first in its industry to create a suite of methodologies and business processes to cope with clients' challenges in recruiting in the complex global marketplace.

Today, all of Antal's senior consultants are multi-lingual in at least two languages and have direct working experience across half a dozen international markets.

Demand for Antal's services in Russia has increased by over 80% over the past two years and the company is currently looking to expand its operations by employing over 150 consultants over the next six months to cope with increasing demand for its services.

Background Brief - Antal International

Antal International is one of the world's leading international executive search and selection consultancy serving the recruitment requirements of Fortune 500 companies in global emerging markets. It has been consistently ranked as one of the top performing British companies in the Sunday Times Fast Track survey since 1997.

With over 300 employees in 55 offices in 25 countries, Antal has developed unique methodologies and structures which allow it to provide high quality middle and senior level recruitment in some of the fastest growing and most challenging markets in the world.

Through its Matrix Portfolio Management system (MPM) and internationally integrated, wholly-owned office network, Antal is able to target its recruitment expertise to ensure maximum success. It's industry leading IT systems integrate it globally in a way no other consultancy can match. This enables Antal to share information and knowledge for the benefit of all its clients, assisting them as they respond to the needs of the global workplace.

Antal's core sectors of specialisation are FMCG, Financial Services/Banking, IT/Telecoms and Oil &Gas and within these sectors it covers all skill sets, including HR, Sales & Marketing, IT (both permanent and contract), General Management and technical assignments.

These areas are covered in over 50 markets around the world by dedicated sector and practice teams with specific industry and skill set knowledge. Antal's multi-national clients include Coca-Cola, GE, Morgan Stanley, HP, Oracle, 3 Com, CISCO, Mattel, KPMG, Vodafone, McDonalds, UBS, Clifford Chance, Office Depot, and American Express.