The senior level travel recruitment market is no different to any other market in that the pendulum swings between excess demand or excess supply.

Business leaders regularly ask for one thing and that’s stability. They like to be able to predict what is going to happen next, and from that respect travel is no different from any other industry sector.

A Travel Weekly business breakfast briefing this week at Google’s London HQ featured a panel of exclusive Google execs to discuss the world’s most powerful search engine’s effect on the travel industry.

To summarise – profile images should be clear, focused, honest and appeal to a professional audience.

Long gone are the days of stuffy job-salesmen with lists of telephone numbers for potential candidates, taking days to respond to an email and having a website as old as the faded sign on the door.

Many travel industry people assume that similarly to the retail high street, recruitment agencies are in a declining market. Never has this been further from the truth.

Is your New Year resolution to get a new job? Are you thinking about boosting your career or looking for something completely new?