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Executive recruiting continues to break records, and it’s not over …

Half of the market and 45% of net executive jobs created are concentrated in three specific trades in the service world.

As in previous years, young managers (with between one and ten years of experience) remain the most sought after by recruiters.
As in previous years, young managers (with between one and ten years of experience) remain the most sought after by recruiters. Eric Audras / PhotoAlto

If there is one asset class that is not experiencing the crisis, it is managers. They had an exceptional year last year, and 2020 will be even more so. According to the latest forecasts made by Apec, companies have not only created no less than 281,300 jobs for executives last year, a record which marks an increase of 6% compared to 2018, which was a year itself up 10%.

But they plan to create some 297,000 this year, with the realistic intention of exceeding the symbolic bar of 300,000 in 2021 and 2022, which experts say seems to be leveling off. “Regardless of fluctuating growth, companies continue to recruit massive numbers of executives”, confirms Bertrand Hébert, director general of Apec. And the overall balance is positive: 75,000 net executive jobs created over one year, 150,000 over two years and 1 million over twenty years.

These results explain that the unemployment rate of this

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