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Blue-chip companies are increasingly looking outside their organisations and industry sector to recruit senior executives, according to TMP Worldwide.

Schroders has appointed Jonathan Asquith as CFO, replacing Nicholas MacAndrew, who spent 30 years with the company. Asquith joins from Barclays where he was head of UK private banking. He has experience as FD at Morgan Grenfell Group.

Career progression should be clearly defined if you want to find tomorrow’s leaders from today’s recruits

With almost 30 FDs in the FTSE-350 earning £1m-plus, the job looks increasingly attractive. And the FDs look younger too.

It's hard enough to recruit well-skilled staff. Once you've found them, retaining and motivating them continues to be an enormous corporate challenge.