
Bonuses & Return To Work: Key Insights From The 2025 Talent Report
About this episode
What’s really happening in the financial sciences and services talent market?
That’s what we aim to uncover with the 2025 Talent Report. Every year, Selby Jennings produces a bonuses and salary survey report to provide empirical data for the financial sciences and services industry.
The report equips clients with insights and strategies needed to hire, develop and retain top talent, and helps candidates navigate the ever-changing job market.
And in this episode, US Head of Selby Jennings, Ben Hodzic, joins us to break down the key findings from the latest report and what they mean for 2025.
Covered in this episode:
- 2:16 - What the 2025 Talent Report reveals from the candidate and client perspective.
- 4:11 - The biggest takeaways from the report.
- 6:00 - How bonuses and the employment market have evolved over the past two years.
- 11:19 - Return to office insights - what are the expectations and what are firms providing?
- 18:33 - What to expect from the talent market throughout 2025.
This is the first part of a mini-series where we’ll uncover all the insights you need to know from the report. So if you’re not already, subscribe to the Searching Smarter podcast on your podcast platform of choice, so you don’t miss the rest of the series.
LEARN MORE
Download the 2025 Talent Report - https://hubs.la/Q03mGjz-0
Selby Jennings - https://www.selbyjennings.com/
Phaidon International - https://www.phaidoninternational.com/
CONNECT
Jesse Skaff on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/jesse-skaff-0783645b/
Ben Hodzic on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/ben-hodzic-25a8bb59/
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Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/3BAUCsXbXiNqnfXR9jDG4k?si=4a75d55cf5a74d6e
Apple Podcasts - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/searching-smarter/id1770342621
YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCkk9RrybV10doAzoXuK5jYw
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