May 26, 2025 - Where Can I Find Better Roles?

Happy Monday!

Here’s what’s on the job description for today:

1. Brand new roles including an interesting job at a search fund.

2. Today’s graph looks at the trend in European companies reporting whether they are short staffed.

3. Today’s Question: “I used to see a lot more interesting jobs a few months ago. Has something changed with the job market?

IN HIRING

Consulting

• EY has a variety of consulting roles open in the UK offices including on teams such as Financial Services, Transformation, Supply Chain, and AI (link)

• OC&C, London-based strategy consultancy is hiring for Manager and Associate level roles in the UK and Germany (link)

• Guidehouse is hiring across many of their practices including Government and Financial Services for both UK and USA candidates (link)

Finance

• Vanguard is hiring for roles in their trading and strategic teams, with most roles available in UK and USA (link)

• BlackRock is looking for candidates across their Corporate Strategy, Project Management, and Strategic Development teams (link)

Tech

• Google is hiring for over 1k roles related to Strategy and Product-Strategy (link)

• Salesforce has roles open for Product Management open across the USA, UK, and Canada (link)

• Nvidia is looking for candidates with a more technical background to join their Program Management team (link)

Unique Opportunity

• Search Fund Accelerator, a company that coaches and supports would-be CEOs find and acquire companies to run, has an internship open for MBA students interested in getting experience in the private equity/ entrepreneurship landscape (link)

EMPLOYMENT MARKET

I was struggling to find many decent data science roles for a candidate I’m working with and started wondering if this was part of a broader trend. That led me to some interesting charts on employment trends in the eurozone.

The graph below shows how many companies report experiencing “staff shortages,” which is a signal of their intent to hire. While the trend has been downward, albeit with some fluctuations, over the past few years, it's notably low compared to recent years, which themselves weren’t particularly strong for hiring.

The upside? It appears to be approaching a level where, historically, it has tended to rebound. If that pattern holds, we might see a relative improvement in the coming months compared to how 2025 has looked so far.

That said, this graph doesn’t clearly show how closely staff shortages correlate with job openings. It's not clear whether it's a leading or lagging indicator, so we’re left to draw our own conclusions.

TODAY’S QUESTION

Today’s Question: “I used to see a lot more interesting jobs a few months ago. Has something changed with the job market?”

• First, for those who, like me, primarily use LinkedIn, here are a few best practices:

  • Take this job link for example: https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/search/?currentJobId=4237326999&f_TPR=r3600&geoId=92000000&keywords=go%20to%20market&origin=JOB_SEARCH_PAGE_LOCATION_AUTOCOMPLETE&refresh=true

  • Timing: The “r3600” means it was posted 3600 seconds ago, which is 1 hour. This can be changed to whatever number you want.

  • More specific titles: The go%20to%20market portion is the keyword I searched for, and %20 represents a space in URLs. If you want to search for that exact phrase, put it in quotation marks in the LinkedIn search bar: “go to market.” This can also be encoded in the URL if you're building links manually. .

  • Saving time: Rather than creating saved searches, save the exact web address and review it when you have time and it will save all the filters you want. Best practice would be to create a few of these for different industries or roles.

• Second, try more niche job boards.

  • We Work Remotely - Tech, product, and design jobs, all remote.

  • Wellfound - Startup focused roles.

  • Women Who Code Job Board - For women in tech.

  • Product Hunt Jobs - Specific to companies that have innovative products.

  • Sustainable Jobs - Roles based on sustainability from investment banking to startups and everything in-between.

  • Work for Good - Looks at roles where purpose and impact are front and center.

• Finally, network with people who have jobs you want.

  • For this to work, you need to either do warmer networking through your existing network…

  • OR, if they’re tired of hearing from you, set a goal for 50 connection requests a week and reach out to each one who accepts with a message that is personal to their profile. Don’t go on and on about yourself - no one cares until they meet you.

Conclusion:

This is a big question, but the strongest candidates I've seen are the ones who build a repeatable process and keep refining it over time.