Insights

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.