How the UK Executive Search market has changed in the last year

The last 12 months have been defined by political, legislative and economic unpredictability. As a result, Executive Search has been tasked with adapting to ongoing macro-sized changes to fulfil clients’ hiring needs across multiple business sectors.

In the face of these continuing challenges, Executive Grapevine’s 2016/17 UK Executive Search Rankings Report highlights the overall resilience – and in some instances growth - search firms are displaying. The entire Executive Search market is up by 4.2% on a like for like basis against GDP growth for the same period of 2.0%.

This growth, explains Helen Fish, CEO, Executive Grapevine, is indicative of the Executive Search industry - which has always been flexible when facing up to challenges presented by an ever-changing marketplace.

She says: “Executive Search has continued to grow since this report started tracking the industry 16 years ago. Looking at trends in the search industry over the last twelve months has shown us the high regard with which the Search industry is held.