The Evolution of Talent in Commodities

Talent is the key to a thriving commodities world and especially to the vendors that play within the industry. Periodically, I like to check in with headhunters to get a read of the talent market as a trailing indicator of which vendors are truly succeeding and which are not and have often discussed these trends with Carl Vellenoweth, CEO of Commoditas, for example. Recently, Carl contacted me about a wider piece of work he had been doing mapping out commodities talent trends in some considerable detail and coming to some very interesting conclusions. That article will shortly be published here on CTRM Center meanwhile, here are a number of things I learned to whet your appetite. Commoditas says that while CTRM software has grown at strong rates, talent hasn’t. Talent, it says has lagged the growth in CTRM by over 100% this last five years forcing CTRM vendors and consulting firms to reinvent their recruitment processes. Commoditas looks at the various vendors in the space and how they have recruited as well as what hiring strategies they appear to have adopted to keep pace. These are interesting data as they do add evidence from our analyst perspective to who is… continue reading