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With markets like Saudi booming, the demand for experienced staff is unprecedented, says BLJ’s Justin Kerr-Stevens.

With generous budgets and multiple workstreams, there is a client-led assumption that experienced staff are easy to find.

We’ve built a culture of expectation about how quickly a full client team can be built, at a time when the contest for talent is greater than ever.  To meet this need during the FIFA World Cup™ and Expo, we saw manpower agencies replacing client HR functions and agencies becoming magicians – neither of which is sustainable in the long term.

While there are some students with specialised degrees, nothing beats experience. As any agency leader knows, the time it takes for junior staff to become effective requires investment, training and ‘time in post’.  That natu


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