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The executive search market failed to create enough demand in May to overcome a glut of closed and canceled searches,…

Opened search volume appears poised to post relatively stable month-over-month results in May. Our preliminary data shows that month-to-date opened…

Newly opened executive searches in the technology sector dropped 7% YoY in Q1, essentially mirroring the trend line for net…

With market uncertainty at a local maximum in April, demand for executive talent entered a “wait-and-see” mode. Opened searches dropped…

Preliminary numbers show executive demand dropped 15% month over month in April. Though Thrive data is not finalized for April,…

After a series of quarters with elevated C-level openings, Q1 saw a decline in the share of newly opened roles…

Median compensation for newly hired executives fell nearly 3% in Q1, down from an all-time high in Q4 2024. This…

Many executive talent teams invest significant resources to keep their data updated but still find it less than helpful in…

Final search volume numbers are in for Q1 and it’s slightly better than expected: Opened search volume rose 8% quarter-over-quarter…

Leadership hiring will end up at least 4% higher in Q1 than Q4 2024, a modest bump that feels like…

Median OTE for newly hired executives is flat QoQ so far in Q1. With a Wall Street Journal article from earlier this…

Newly placed executives were down about 15% MoM and YoY in February. The slow-down tracks with the YoY Q4 2024…

Newly opened executive searches grew at least 5% in February, giving us two straight months of monthly growth. Though numbers…

Healthcare, Life Sciences and Technology were the only industries to show year-over-year growth last quarter, showing just how significant the…

Even with data siloes, it might be a more viable option than you think. Key Takeaways Steward a cultural shift…

Closed search volume dropped 5% month over month in January, but grew 5% year over year. While we shared open…

Executive search volume grew 15% month-over-month to start the year, the slowest start to the year we’ve seen in our…

CEOs are the only roles with sustained demand on a QoQ and YoY basis. In fact, it’s the only role…

Median OTE for newly hired executives rose 12% year-over-year in Q4 to $460,000. Median base compensation rose just north of…

VC and PE executive hiring demand dipped in Q4, but public and private held ground. Newly opened searches for executive…

More than 50% of talent partners say one of their top obstacles remains consolidating and enriching talent data, but less…

The executive search market rebounded in 2024 with 4% annual growth, thanks to a strong first half of the year.…

Median compensation for newly placed executives is taking a hit in Q4, thanks to lower bonuses. Median OTE is tracking…

Q4 is pacing to a flat-ish quarter-over-quarter comp for opened executive searches and the market demand is becoming clearer for…

Opened executive search volume in November dropped 19% from October, a seasonal development that was to be expected. November 2024’s…

A steady start to Q4 executive demand was buoyed in October by a higher share of lower-level roles. Opened search…

With Amazon announcing a RTO policy last week, the “office debate” is heating up again. For executive hiring, though, that…

Leadership hiring demand was flat in October, giving the executive search market two months in a row that more like…

We noted in a previous newsletter issue that technology hiring was bucking the overall market trend, with leadership demand up…

Looking for a bright spot in the executive search market? It’s found—mostly—in technology. Our latest quarterly report, released earlier this…

Product and Engineering roles buoyed leadership hiring demand in Q3, a bit of a reversal from recent quarters. Since the…

Leadership hiring dropped 4% quarter-over-quarter in Q3, again showing market that’s not quite ready to keep all the gains it…

Newly opened executive searches in Private Equity appear to have grown 17% in Q3, while Venture Capital saw more modest…

Demand for CEOs—one of the more persistent areas in executive search over the last year or so—has slipped in Q3.…

Newly placed executives are on pace to hit their highest levels since Q3 2022. That growth, however, has mostly come…

Median compensation for newly placed executives is nearly flat so far in Q3, coming in at $420K for the first…

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

Prior to Q1 2024’s median compensation of $428K, the previous high-water mark was set in Q2 2022 ($420K). With the…

Introduction As talent data becomes increasingly available with new technology, research tools, and team expansion, leaders outside of executive talent…

After a roller coaster ride from 2022 to 2023, search velocity has steadied. When viewing Q2 data through a trendline…

While demand for CEO leadership has been up and to the right for the last several quarters, companies are beginning…

As earnings season rounds into form, the early message seems to be that the economy is slowing down. According to…

Three things to know about executive search right now: Leadership demand from privately held companies is nearly 2X the previous…

We recently released our 2024 Q2 Executive Search Report. In this issue, you’ll find a deep dive our normal market…

While overall leadership hiring was flat year-over-year in Q2, CEO hiring continues to be in demand, ending the quarter up…

Executive search volume dropped 3% in Q2 from its Q1 numbers. While we’ll be releasing full Q2 data in the…

Median OTE for newly placed executives is down 10% over Q1 through the first two months of Q2. The quarter-to-date…

C-level placements comprised 51% of all new executive placements through the first two months of Q2, the placement share we’ve…

Through the first two months of Q2, executive search volume has held on a MoM basis, projecting for a flat…

Through the first two months of Q2, executive search volume has held on a MoM basis, down just 1% over…

Median executive compensation rose 7% QoQ in Q1 and 10% YoY, setting new compensation highs in Thrive's dataset. The increase…

VC has seen a significant deceleration in search cycles since Q2 2023, slowing roughly 10% from 118 days to 130…

Executive hiring continues to push its highest concentration of C-level work. Since the market’s fall from peak hiring, opened searches…

Last week, we wrote in this space that Sales leadership roles are up 52% at Series B/C companies in Q1…

One of the trends we’ve monitored in this space is the persistent growth of Sales roles since the market’s bottom.…

The market consensus for some time has been that cloud infrastructure earnings reports are leading indicators for the software market…

While we previously reported that open search volume was up 12% QoQ in Q1, we now have insight into where…

The 12% QoQ growth in opened executive searches in Q1 was driven by higher interest in nearly all functions, but…

Opened executive search volume rose 12% QoQ and 9% YoY in Q1. 2024 kicked off with an especially active January…

While median executive compensation grew 2% YoY last year, one of the hidden developments was that executives who spent 3-5…

Through January and February, opened searches for Sales executives are up 36% YoY quarter to date and CEO searches are…

While search volume continues to rise so far in 2024, the makeup of those searches is following a prolonged trend…

In a recent poll, 79% of executive talent leaders reported that they were receiving more requests from C-Suite leadership on…

Opened search volume posted its sixth straight month of YoY growth in February. The growth was a modest 2%, perhaps…

Earlier this week, Carta released 2023 hiring and departure/layoff numbers for startups with the headline that more employees left startups…

Last week, we reported that January’s MoM and YoY opened search volume trends were stronger than January 2023’s, a promising sign…

One of the persistent story lines to earnings call season, at least in technology, has been the mention of “green…

While this benchmark data was shared in our annual report, it didn’t receive much commentary: Identifying the right executive is…

One of the prolonged trends we’ve been highlighting for the last few quarters is the rebound, in particular, of Sales…