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Article: Recruiters scramble to mop up Lehman talent.
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- Recruiter
- Article date:
- October 1, 2008
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Recruiters are scrambling to net the best talent following the collapse of investment bank behemoth Lehman Brothers, which released 4,500 people on to the jobs market.
Agencies have been competing with in-house recruiters and outplacement firms to benefit from the short-term deluge of talent, setting up shop in Canary Wharf and cherry-picking candidates on the day of the bank's closure on 15 September.
"Everybody at Lehman is receiving many calls everyday. All the agencies are looking at people who are working at Lehman Brothers and placing calls," Eric Salmon, an analyst at Lehman Brothers who lost his job in the fallout, told Recruiter. The ...