“Executive recruitment” is the process of employers using an external firm to locate potential candidates to fill senior or key vacancies. It is commonly known as “headhunting”.
A lack of succession planning has led most of the UK’s largest listed companies to chose external candidates as their new chief executive, a trend not seen elsewhere in Europe or in the US.
Compared with 2024, the number of directors that cited succession planning as a difficult issue to oversee has more than doubled in the US.
More than 15% of chief financial officers in publicly listed companies left their roles in 2024, according to research by Russell Reynolds Associates.
Primark boss Paul Marchant has resigned following an allegation by a woman about ‘his behaviour towards her in a social environment’.
Mid-sized UK businesses are slow to boost ethnic diversity on their boards, a new race representation report finds
Female chief executives face double standards over how their performance is judged to a far greater extent than men, according to new research.
Female representation on FTSE 100 boards increases to 43.4% – equating to 1,275 roles – as British businesses drive gender equality.Â
Understanding the Path to CHRO, by global HR consultancy the Josh Bersin Company, found that 53% of HR leaders were now C-suite members.
What should organisations looking to bring in overseas talent look out for in 2025, asks Bates Wells’ Chetal Patel and Aisha Choudhry
The number of women on boards of the UK’s top 150 companies continues to rise, from 40% in 2023 to 43% in 2024.
Over two-thirds of senior executive roles in the FTSE 100 go to men, according to analysis by Russell Reynolds Associates.
Female representation on FTSE 350 executive committees has fallen to 32%, according to the annual Women Count survey.
More than two-thirds of chief HR officers in the FTSE 100 are women, but most are the only female in the senior executive team.
Talent acquisition teams increasingly feel disconnected from company strategy and are being forced only to advise on ways of reducing costs.
Most employees feel more could be done to hire and promote more ethnically diverse executives.
