How to Run a Post-Mortem on a Hire That Didn’t Work
If a newly hired director leaves at month 11. The role goes back on the market with the same specification, and the search is run again by the people who completed the last. What businesses almost never do in between is a proper examination of how the original decision was made and exactly why the […]
The Wisdom Gap: The Hiring Problem Nobody Owns
The ageing workforce argument has been made so often that most leadership teams have stopped hearing it. Everyone accepts that more people will leave industrial, energy, life sciences, and technology businesses over the next decade than will join them. The figure goes on a slideshow for a leadership meeting, everyone agrees it is a concern, […]
Pharma Hiring 2026: Insights and Challenges
Large pharma spent 2025 cutting jobs and still cannot fill the senior roles it needs most. Almost all those cuts landed in commercial and support functions. The vacancies that will not close are in regulatory affairs, quality, technical operations and CMC, the chemistry and manufacturing work that sits behind a filing. Regulatory affairs shows the […]
The Executive Search Process: Explained Properly
The executive search process is one of the most important journeys a business goes on. The person at the end of it could be running the company one day. There’s no room for error at this level. That puts as much weight on the partner running the search, as on the shortlist itself. […]
What a 12-18 Month Recruitment Guarantee Actually Means
Every recruitment partner will tell you they stand behind their work and their recruitment guarantee. Ask them for how long, and the conversation tends to get shorter. The guarantee is the only part of a recruitment process that carries a genuine cost to the supplier. Everything else is a promise about effort, candidate selection techniques […]
Hiring Intelligence: Our New Hiring Solution
Before starting a search for a new hire, understanding the current market is crucial. This is where Hiring Intelligence has its role. Knowing what the talent pool looks like, what candidates expect to be paid, and how many people genuinely have the required experience are among the key questions worth answering before a search gets […]
Semiconductor Hiring: A Guide for Engineering Leaders
Semiconductor hiring has not kept pace with the industry as it grows faster than at any point in its history. The shortfall is sharpest in the mid-senior leadership roles that keep a chip plant or a design programme on schedule. Global chip sales are on track to pass $1.5 trillion in 2026. Demand from artificial […]
Global Health-Tech Case Study
Picture an internal recruitment team watching a live vacancy list grow faster than they can clear it. Deadlines to meet, but not enough internal capacity to get there. That’s where our embedded recruitment model works best. That was the reality inside a global healthcare technology organisation, a business supplying software and services to healthcare providers […]
Succession Planning: Why Most Boards Aren’t Ready for Their Next Leadership Exit
Succession planning has never mattered more, and the numbers explain why. Through the first half of 2026, 920 chief executives left their posts at companies tracked by Challenger, Gray & Christmas. Boards have always absorbed exits. Retirements get planned for, resignations get managed, and the occasional abrupt departure gets handled. The exits themselves are rarely […]
What The Best Passive Candidates Actually Want
If you own a hire that cannot afford to fail, and you have spent the last few months reading shortlists where nobody was quite good enough, this one is written for you. You know the shape of it by now. The role has been open for three months, it is senior, and it is the […]