The Search is On for Top HR Leaders and Diversity Chiefs as Pandemic Risks Subside
Coming out of the crisis, recruitment firms are seeing great demand for human resources and diversity leaders who can meet the challenges of the “new normal.” These key executives must be sophisticated, proactive, inspirational, and strategic-minded, with strong business savvy, say search professionals.
April 5, 2021 – As the pandemic raged last spring, chief human resource leaders stepped up around the nation. Their task: to play a starring role in helping organizations navigate and fight through a challenge that has turned out to be far greater than the one faced during the Great Recession. A recent article in The Economist noted that during the health crisis of 2020, CHROs “keep employees healthy; maintain their morale; and oversee a vast remote-working experiment.” As companies now begin to slowly emerge from the COVID-19 era, these HR chiefs have other pressing dilemmas, like whether to downsize their workforces – or to rebuild – in the aftermath.