've known Heather Travis for years and regularly recommend her as a recruitment research guru. She has been joint Chair of the Executive Research Association (ERA) for the past 5 years and has been involved in research in its entirety for over 25 years. I thought it might be useful to ask her to share some information about the ERA - as despite its profile within the niche of recruitment research I'm pretty sure it's not rearched the radar of everyone within the recruitment industry.... and it's worth knowing they exist!
The ERA was conceived in 1984, initially as an informal forum for researchers in the search industry to meet and share ideas. In 1986 the organisation was formalised into an Association managed by an industry committee, with subscription members. The ERA is now the leading Research Association in the UK and we maintain strong links with our peers in the US and on the Continent. Setting industry standards, we provide a strong networking facility to our members.
Over the years the shape of research has changed significantly and can now be split into 3 distinct areas:
• Independent researchers who outsource their services to headhunting consultancies & direct to corporate clients.
• In-house researchers sitting in headhunting consultancies.
• In-house researchers sitting in corporate companies within their internal resourcing/talent teams.
We have members from each category represented in the ERA and the events we organise are relevant to all.
We hold 3 events throughout the year:
• Conference which in 2012 will be as follows:
Wednesday 18th April 2012 our annual conference titled “Best Practice in Research” to be held at the Royal Society of Arts, London.
• Summer networking event
• Autumn Webinar
Our recent 2011 Webinar was a huge success titled “Back to Basics” conducted by Helene Buchanan-Dunne.
Members and non-members can advertise any Researcher vacancies at a very reasonable price on our website and LinkedIn Group.
