Opened executive search volume is up 4% year-over-year and down 12% quarter-over-quarter so far in Q3.

Zooming in to a monthly trend basis, you can see that the wild swings we saw in 2023 have mostly rolled away. That said, search volume in 2024 thus far has been front weighted—with the two slowest months of the year happening in the last three months.

At the market’s current pacing, opened search volume in Q3 is estimated fall roughly 2% over Q2, a slight improvement over Q2’s 3% decline from Q1.