Salaries
The 2027 salary outlook: where senior pay is still moving
Senior base pay in London rose 3.8% this year, but the spread is wide. Our 2027 forecast by role, and where real premiums are still being paid.
Clara Lindqvist
Insights
Market notes, salary data and hiring advice from the consultants running our searches.
Firm
Fifteen years of shortlists
Our first retained shortlist went out in October 2011. Since then: 1,240 placements, 94% still in post after a year, and a few lessons we keep relearning.
Henry Lau
Hiring
Notice periods are getting longer. Plan for it.
Senior legal and compliance hires in London now take a median 19 weeks to start after signing. Typical notice by level, and how to plan a search around it.
Daniel Navid
Market
The senior nursing leadership gap, and who is closing it
Chief Nurse and Director of Nursing searches now take longer and yield thinner shortlists than any other healthcare leadership work. What is changing, and what works.
Sofia Reyes
Hiring
Hiring a first Head of AI without paying for the hype
The title carries a 24% premium in New York. How to decide what the role is for, what to test candidates on, and how to price an offer on evidence.
Marcus Bell
Market
Interim demand is the market's leading indicator
In energy and infrastructure, interim and contract hiring moves about six months before permanent demand. What we watch, and what it is telling us now.
Rahul Desai
Careers
Counter-offers, twelve months later
We followed up every candidate who accepted a counter-offer during our searches. Within a year, 45% had left anyway. Here is what separated those who stayed.
Anjali Mehra
Careers
How to read a job spec like a recruiter
A job specification is a negotiated document, and the useful signals are structural. Ten things a recruiter reads for, and the questions to ask next.
Grace Tran
Hiring
Why a CFO search should start with the audit committee
The chief executive writes most CFO briefs alone. Bringing the audit chair in at the start removes the late surprises that stall so many finance searches.
Henry Lau