Recruiters adamant: 2006 will be a bumper year for candidates!

Here's some cheery news to share with everyone interested in the health of the management consultancy sector. For our forthcoming recruiters' event we asked the 250 attendees (a mix of HR managers and recruitment consultants) to assess the likely buoyancy of the consultancy recruitment market in 2006 - always a good indicator of how healthy the consulting market as a whole is looking...
On the back of a buoyant 2005, an incredible 81% of recruiters believe recruitment levels will be higher still in 2006. The remainder almost all believe the market will be as buoyant as it was in 2005. What other sector can boast that only 1% of executives believe the market will be quieter in 2006 than it was in 2005??
Here's to a bumper year for us all!

Tony

PS Here are those results in full:

Q. Do you envisage your company will make more hires / placements in 2006 than in 2005?
Significantly more hires / placements than in 2005
(35.53%)

More hires / placements than in 2005
(46.49%)

A similar number of hires / placements to 2005
(16.67%)

Fewer hires / placements than in 2005
(0.44%)

Significantly fewer hires / placements than in 2005
(0.44%)