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One page. One market. One quarter.
The Market Read - a one-page quarterly read on a talent market we work in: availability, compensation direction, movement, and what it means for your next search.
No filler, no vendor pitch. One market. What we are actually seeing from the searches we are running right now.
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Published reads.
Q3 2026 — Banking & Financial Services
Published July 2026
Availability crunch, compensation repricing, and what 57.5% external executive fills mean for your bench strategy.
One page. Four things.
Availability
How many qualified candidates are actually in motion for this role - not how many have the title on their resume.
Compensation direction
What the market is clearing at, where it is moving, and where the gap between expectation and reality is widening.
Movement
Where talent is going and what is pulling it there - sector shifts, company-stage preferences, geographic flow.
What it means
The one-line implication for your next search in this market, written by the Practice Leader who ran searches in it this quarter.
Know the market before you open the search.
23 questions. About ten minutes. A scored read of where your hiring breaks.
