2025 Salary Survey & Market Insights Report
18 Feb, 2025
With the job market remaining highly active, especially in specialist fields with project work involving finance transformations, underwriting workbench, regulatory, significant change initiatives, and divestment projects (to name a few but there's a few more) there has been a notable demand across various roles including BAs, PMs, PMOs, Business Architects, and Product positions.
Here’s some of my top 5 tips to any hiring managers currently recruiting in this specialist market;
- Time = moving the process along as quickly as possible is fundamentally important. Can you shorten the different stages and cut down time / offer? A lot of these candidates are being progressed extremely fast in some firms.
- Don’t forget to sell = 50% of the 1st stage should be you selling the opportunity, the firm, people, culture and long term career paths. ***Remember first impressions count and specialists candidates have so much choice across contract & perm roles***
- Contingency plan = If you struggle to find the specialist you need within X timeframe? What is the impact? Cost to the programme? What is your plan B? (Can you get in a contractor in the interim)? DON’T WAIT FOR A UNICORN!!!!
- Be assertive and present a competitive offer = Make a strong initial offer without undercutting candidates. It's crucial to avoid lowballing as candidates are likely to stay if countered. Ensure flexibility in your offer and emphasise key benefits, which are more vital than ever before.
- Be creative = how can you, your firm and the opportunity stand out from the rest??! Can you work with your agency/recruitment partners to come up with a marketing plan to make you stand out?
