November 25, 2024 Executive Search Trends Report [11.23.2024] A steady start to Q4 executive demand was buoyed in October by a higher share of lower-level roles. Opened search…
November 18, 2024 Executive Search Trends Report [11.16.2024] With Amazon announcing a RTO policy last week, the “office debate” is heating up again. For executive hiring, though, that…
November 12, 2024 Executive Search Trends Report [11.09.2024] Leadership hiring demand was flat in October, giving the executive search market two months in a row that more like…
November 4, 2024 Executive Search Trends Report [11.02.2024] We noted in a previous newsletter issue that technology hiring was bucking the overall market trend, with leadership demand up…
October 25, 2024 Executive Search Quarterly Report: Q3 2024 Table of Contents 2024 Q3 Overview Leadership hiring demand dropped 4% quarter-over-quarter in Q3, the second straight quarterly decline. This,…
October 21, 2024 Executive Search Trends Report [10.19.2024] Product and Engineering roles buoyed leadership hiring demand in Q3, a bit of a reversal from recent quarters. Since the…
October 15, 2024 Executive Search Trends Report [10.12.2024] Leadership hiring dropped 4% quarter-over-quarter in Q3, again showing market that’s not quite ready to keep all the gains it…
October 7, 2024 Executive Search Trends Report [10.05.2024] Newly opened executive searches in Private Equity appear to have grown 17% in Q3, while Venture Capital saw more modest…
September 30, 2024 Executive Search Trends Report [09.28.2024] Demand for CEOs—one of the more persistent areas in executive search over the last year or so—has slipped in Q3.…
September 23, 2024 Executive Search Trends Report [09.21.2024] Newly placed executives are on pace to hit their highest levels since Q3 2022. That growth, however, has mostly come…
September 16, 2024 Executive Search Trends Report [09.14.2024] Median compensation for newly placed executives is nearly flat so far in Q3, coming in at $420K for the first…
September 9, 2024 Executive Search Trends Report [09.07.2024] Opened executive search volume is up 4% year-over-year and down 12% quarter-over-quarter so far in Q3. Zooming in to a…
August 26, 2024 Executive Search Trends Report [08.24.2024] Prior to Q1 2024’s median compensation of $428K, the previous high-water mark was set in Q2 2022 ($420K). With the…
August 20, 2024 Is Market Mapping Worth It? Introduction As talent data becomes increasingly available with new technology, research tools, and team expansion, leaders outside of executive talent…
August 19, 2024 Executive Search Trends Report [08.17.2024] After a roller coaster ride from 2022 to 2023, search velocity has steadied. When viewing Q2 data through a trendline…
August 13, 2024 Executive Search Trends Report [08.10.2024] While demand for CEO leadership has been up and to the right for the last several quarters, companies are beginning…
August 5, 2024 Executive Search Trends Report [08.3.2024] As earnings season rounds into form, the early message seems to be that the economy is slowing down. According to…
July 30, 2024 Executive Search Trends Report [07.27.2024] Three things to know about executive search right now: Leadership demand from privately held companies is nearly 2X the previous…
July 23, 2024 Executive Search Trends Report [07.20.2024] We recently released our 2024 Q2 Executive Search Report. In this issue, you’ll find a deep dive our normal market…
July 16, 2024 Executive Search Trends Report [07.13.2024] While overall leadership hiring was flat year-over-year in Q2, CEO hiring continues to be in demand, ending the quarter up…
July 8, 2024 Executive Search Trends Report [07.06.2024] Executive search volume dropped 3% in Q2 from its Q1 numbers. While we’ll be releasing full Q2 data in the…
July 1, 2024 Executive Search Trends Report [06.29.2024] Median OTE for newly placed executives is down 10% over Q1 through the first two months of Q2. The quarter-to-date…
June 22, 2024 Executive Search Trends Report [06.22.2024] C-level placements comprised 51% of all new executive placements through the first two months of Q2, the placement share we’ve…
June 15, 2024 Executive Search Trends Report [06.15.2024] Through the first two months of Q2, executive search volume has held on a MoM basis, projecting for a flat…
June 10, 2024 Executive Search Trends Report [06.08.2024] Through the first two months of Q2, executive search volume has held on a MoM basis, down just 1% over…
June 3, 2024 Executive Search Trends Report [06.01.2024] Median executive compensation rose 7% QoQ in Q1 and 10% YoY, setting new compensation highs in Thrive's dataset. The increase…
May 24, 2024 Executive Search Trends Report [05.25.2024] VC has seen a significant deceleration in search cycles since Q2 2023, slowing roughly 10% from 118 days to 130…
May 20, 2024 Executive Search Trends Report [05.18.2024] Executive hiring continues to push its highest concentration of C-level work. Since the market’s fall from peak hiring, opened searches…
May 13, 2024 Executive Search Trends Report [05.11.2024] Last week, we wrote in this space that Sales leadership roles are up 52% at Series B/C companies in Q1…
May 6, 2024 Executive Search Trends Report [05.04.2024] One of the trends we’ve monitored in this space is the persistent growth of Sales roles since the market’s bottom.…
April 27, 2024 Executive Search Trends Report [04.27.2024] The market consensus for some time has been that cloud infrastructure earnings reports are leading indicators for the software market…
April 22, 2024 Executive Search Trends Report [04.20.2024] While we previously reported that open search volume was up 12% QoQ in Q1, we now have insight into where…
April 15, 2024 Executive Search Trends Report [04.13.2024] The 12% QoQ growth in opened executive searches in Q1 was driven by higher interest in nearly all functions, but…
April 8, 2024 Executive Search Trends Report [04.06.2024] Opened executive search volume rose 12% QoQ and 9% YoY in Q1. 2024 kicked off with an especially active January…
April 1, 2024 Executive Search Trends Report [03.30.2024] While median executive compensation grew 2% YoY last year, one of the hidden developments was that executives who spent 3-5…
March 25, 2024 Executive Search Trends Report [03.23.2024] Through January and February, opened searches for Sales executives are up 36% YoY quarter to date and CEO searches are…
March 18, 2024 C-level Hires Lead Q1 Opened Searches While search volume continues to rise so far in 2024, the makeup of those searches is following a prolonged trend…
March 14, 2024 6 Tactics to Maintain DEI Momentum in 2024 In a recent poll, 79% of executive talent leaders reported that they were receiving more requests from C-Suite leadership on…
March 11, 2024 Sixth Straight Month of YoY Growth in Search Volume Opened search volume posted its sixth straight month of YoY growth in February. The growth was a modest 2%, perhaps…
March 4, 2024 Recent Shifts in Startup Hiring Trends Earlier this week, Carta released 2023 hiring and departure/layoff numbers for startups with the headline that more employees left startups…
February 26, 2024 Insights from January 2024’s Closed Search Volume Last week, we reported that January’s MoM and YoY opened search volume trends were stronger than January 2023’s, a promising sign…
February 21, 2024 Green Shoots: A Strong January for Tech Companies One of the persistent story lines to earnings call season, at least in technology, has been the mention of “green…
February 12, 2024 Time to Find Executives Decreased but Overall Hiring Time Increased While this benchmark data was shared in our annual report, it didn’t receive much commentary: Identifying the right executive is…
February 5, 2024 Sales Leadership Hiring: Strong Pipeline and Growing Demand One of the prolonged trends we’ve been highlighting for the last few quarters is the rebound, in particular, of Sales…
October 28, 2024 Executive Search Trends Report [10.26.2024] Looking for a bright spot in the executive search market? It’s found—mostly—in technology. Our latest quarterly report, released earlier this…