Field at Present: From a Director’s Perspective We have seen a continuation of the slow start to the year, which is expected given the overall economic climate in the market alongside government budgetary pressures. There is certainly an increase in general activity coming in from private companies with an increase in ratios of new hires vs replacements. With the recent budget announcements, we will see the flow on impact across government with both the continuation and kick off of new projects, which in our prediction will see an increase in recruitment activity across the board from July onwards. Although certainly not at the frequency of what we have seen in the last six months, we are still seeing organisations across a range of industries forced into making rounds of redundancies and other operational cuts or changes to help them operate more leanly during challenging times.