By Vache Petrossian, Managing Director Life Sciences Foster Partners and Jan Bouwer, Director Search Partners International

The 2016 BlueSteps Executive Job Outlook report was first published on the AESC BlueSteps website

As Job Market Optimism Decreases, Executives Turn to Career Coaches and Digital Training to Stay Relevant

The 2016 BlueSteps Job Outlook Report, just released by Association of Executive Search and Leadership Consultants, shows that global executive optimism has decreased 10.9 percentage points since 2014. Forty-one percent of respondents expect the number of senior management-level positions to remain sluggish as the number of professionals seeking a new opportunity continues to increase, reaching its highest point since 2010 - 90.2 percent.

About the Survey

This data for the report was generated by AESC’s BlueSteps survey of 837 management professionals, director-level through C-suite. BlueSteps is an executive-level career management service that is accessible by 350+ of the AESC’s top executive search firms. BlueSteps membership grew 9.5% in 2015, with new executives continuing to join from across the world.

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