interim

Whether you are an Interim Manager looking for your next role, or a Food Manufacturer looking for an Interim, how do you quickly connect with the right people?

Lisa Johnson and Frederika Roberts, Joint MDs of Jarvis Johnson (the company that pioneered specialist Food Industry Interim Management provision in 1999) believe they have the answer.

The research highlights that interim managers in their 40s are winning the lion's share of jobs, with 58% of them on assignment compared with 47% of interims in their 50s, 42% in their 20s and 30s and 35% in their 60s.

This was largely due to lower paid interims, including recently redundant executives, coming into the market and bringing down the average rates.

According to Lutchmun, there is a difference between interims and fixed-term contractors and consultants who go on the payroll and can be mid- to senior level.

Interim management as a distinct full-time profession is still a relatively new concept, but successful interims typically share some characteristics.

Physician executives who become interims may be retired from full-time employment but still want to be involved in medical management.

Recently, I noticed a new trend where some hospitals are employing interim or temporary VPMAs when they are in the process of developing the position for the first time or in between permanent VPMAs.

Others will have chosen to become interims either because their careers weren't challenging enough or because they felt that organisational polities were preventing them from fulfilling their true potential.

Consequently, many interims are experts in project management and will be able to generate the bursts of energy typically needed for such activities.

* A quick study--Most interims are in and out in less than 18 months.

It's no wonder then that today's market has been a boon for interim CEOs.