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Hudson is a large, global management consulting

Management consulting

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firm headquartered in New York, NY

New York City

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, offering services and solutions that include permanent recruitment, contract professionals, outsourced solutions

Recruitment Process Outsourcing

Recruitment Process Outsourcing is a form of business process outsourcing where an employer outsources or transfers all or part of its recruitment activities to an external service provider....

and talent management services

Talent supply chain management

Talent Supply Chain Management is a proactive management approach to securing and optimizing talent supply and services through all input channels to meet the human capital needs of companies, enabling them to better produce, distribute and deliver their goods and services and meet their...

History

Hudson Highland Group was spun off from human capital solutions provider TMP Worldwide Inc. on March 31, 2003 (the former eResourcing and Executive Search business units of TMP).

Organisation and Operations

Hudson has offices in more than 20 countries across five continents and employs nearly 2000 people.
The company has the following geographical divisions :

Hudson Americas
Americas
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, (based in New York
New York
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)
Hudson Europe
Europe
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, (based in Hong Kong
Hong Kong
Hong Kong is one of two Special Administrative Regions of the People's Republic of China , the other being Macau. A city-state situated on China's south coast and enclosed by the Pearl River Delta and South China Sea, it is renowned for its expansive skyline and deep natural harbour...

)
Hudson Asia Pacific
Asia-Pacific
Asia-Pacific or Asia Pacific is the part of the world in or near the Western Pacific Ocean...

, (based in Singapore
Singapore
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)

Services & Solutions

Hudson delivers enterprise solutions

Enterprise Life Cycle

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as well as smaller scale assignments. It distinguishes its services with a focus on specialized professional staffing, outsourcing

Recruitment Process Outsourcing

Recruitment Process Outsourcing is a form of business process outsourcing where an employer outsources or transfers all or part of its recruitment activities to an external service provider....

, related project management

Project management

Project management is the discipline of planning, organizing, securing, and managing resources to achieve specific goals. A project is a temporary endeavor with a defined beginning and end , undertaken to meet unique goals and objectives, typically to bring about beneficial change or added value...

, management consulting

Management consulting

and talent management services

Talent supply chain management

.

As most consulting firms, the Consulting workforce operates in a matrix structure. The first axis is dedicated to the operating industries, or industries of its clients. The second axis is the core practice areas, which broadly refers to the functional or technical domains in which Hudson specializes. Client engagement teams typically consist of a combination of industry experts, capability specialists and professionals with local market knowledge.

Operating Industries

Financial Services: Banking, Accounting, Capital Markets, Insurance
Products: Legal, Human Resources, Sales & Marketing, Manufacturing & Industrial, Supply Chain & Procurement, Retail, Consumer Goods & Services, Infrastructure & Transportation Services, Health & Life Sciences
Defence, Media & High Tech: Defence & Aerospace, IT&T, Media / PR / Advertising
Resources: Chemicals, Energy, Natural Resources, Utilities
Public Sector: Public Sector

Core Practice Areas

Technology
Information technology consulting
Information technology consulting is a field that focuses on advising businesses on how best to use information technology to meet their business objectives...
Legal
Finance
Finance
"Finance" is often defined simply as the management of money or “funds” management Modern finance, however, is a family of business activity that includes the origination, marketing, and management of cash and money surrogates through a variety of capital accounts, instruments, and markets created...
Human Resources
Human resource consulting
Human resource consulting is an $18.4 billion industry that has emerged from management consulting, asclients' needs have become more complex and specialized, widening the gap between HR needs and work force capabilities, and thus accentuating the ability of HR management consulting firms to fill...

.

Services and Solutions

Permanent Recruiting services
Retained Search methodology
Specialized Professional Staffing
Project Recruitment services
Enterprise solutions
Enterprise Life Cycle
Enterprise Life Cycle in enterprise architecture is the dynamic, iterative process of changing the enterprise over time by incorporating new business processes, new technology, and new capabilities, as well as maintenance, disposition and disposal of existing elements of the enterprise.- Overview...
Project management
Project management
Project management is the discipline of planning, organizing, securing, and managing resources to achieve specific goals. A project is a temporary endeavor with a defined beginning and end , undertaken to meet unique goals and objectives, typically to bring about beneficial change or added value...

and management consulting
Management consulting
Management consulting indicates both the industry and practice of helping organizations improve their performance primarily through the analysis of existing organizational problems and development of plans for improvement....

services
Talent Management services
Recruitment Process Outsourcing
Recruitment Process Outsourcing
Recruitment Process Outsourcing is a form of business process outsourcing where an employer outsources or transfers all or part of its recruitment activities to an external service provider....

(ISO 9000
ISO 9000
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certified)

Marketing and branding

Hudson marketing campaigns have the slogan "From great people to great performance."

Leadership

Chairman of the Board:

Jon Chait (March 2003 – Feb 2011)
Manuel Marquez (March 2011 – …)

Chief executive officer:

Jon Chait (March 2003 – Feb 2011)
Manuel Marquez (March 2011 – …)