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At Sousou Partners, we believe in having a point of view. For over twenty years, it is what our clients have come to expect and to value. Having a point of view about their talent needs, compensation structures, and recruitment processes – but also the type of businesses they are seeking to build and the cultures they are nurturing.
Our annual compensation review has become the centerpiece of our insight work. Each year we benchmark compensation trends across a number of job roles, geographies, and sectors and make this work – suitably anonymized and confidential – available to clients and the media. We also look beyond the immediate world of recruitment. We regularly scan the operating landscape to identify emerging topics and trends that have the potential to affect our clients or the overall real asset sector. And then we research, reflect and review to bring a deeper understanding to our work.
Sometimes we simply write about what has moved us and what we believe is important.
The Round-Up, March 2022
Barely three months into 2022 and the big gulp of fresh air that is (what feels like) the end of a pandemic has been cut mid-breath and taken over by the Ukraine crisis that is having us grapple ever more with our deepest most primal fears and needs for safety, security and sanity. As Ukrainians worldwide experience unspeakable injustice and suffering, what this war will mean to us as individuals, businesses, and humanity at large will be determined by our actions and reactions.
Interview with Sabina Reeves
Sabina Reeves is Chief Economist & Head of Insights & Intelligence for CBRE Investment Management. She is responsible for the firm’s 30-member real assets research team and has a specific role in selecting the economic scenarios and macro risk assessments ...
Real estate lending businesses dig deep to attract key personnel
Recruiting property debt specialists is becoming more expensive as market entrants hunt for talent, writes Daniel Cunningham - As more organisations have set up stall in Europe’s real estate lending market, competition to hire the industry’s debt specialists has intensified, leading to big-ger salaries and bonuses, the results of a sector-wide compensation survey show.
The Round-Up, January 2022
After two decades of exclusively focusing on the Real Assets industry through talent advisor, we find ourselves in an opportune position of having significant and timely intelligence on the industry. We have been communicating much of our knowledge through our search assignments and platform introduction activity but find that we can do better at collating relevant information. Hence the Round-Up.
Interview with Chris Choa
Founder and Director of OUTCOMIST. He leads complex urban projects, assembles extraordinary teams, builds consensus, and creates comparative advantages for a broad range of public and private stakeholders. OUTCOMIST strategies are based on the ‘Theory of Change’; they define long-term virtues and then work backward to identify measurable outcomes and actions.
Executive Recruiters
Despite an understandable slowdown amid the chaos and turmoil of the COVID-19 pandemic, most industries expect hiring and executive recruitment to resume as early as January 2022.
Advisory Services
Businesses across the globe are having to grow and adapt to the changes surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic. In a world where almost nothing looks familiar ...
Executive Placements
The Desert Comes Calling. There have been many seismic changes in the Middle East have fundamentally transformed the geopolitical and social fabric of the region.
Talent Acquisition
Talent Acquisition is a complete hiring solution that forms an ongoing part of HR. In this way, it is much less dependent on “right-place-right-time” than recruitment. Here’s some of what’s coming in talent acquisition in 2021.
Recruitment Strategies
Culture Eats Strategy for Breakfast - Identifying 2020 M&A Winners and Losers Through A Culture Lens; For the past few years, the investment property landscape has been ...
Compensation – Flat is the new up
Compensation for infrastructure investment professionals is expected to stay flat, Serene Hamzawi, managing partner at recruitment and advisory firm Sousou Partners, told us in February 2020. That forecast was made before covid-19 was declared a pandemic and the world went into multiple lockdowns. Roughly a year later, Hamzawi and Sousou were proven right, and the industry showed resilience once again.
Private Real Estate Annual Compensation Survey
The most glaring thing you will see’ in this year’s joint research by PERE and recruitment search specialist Sousou Partners is instances of no bonuses being paid at private equity real estate firms. By Jonathan Brasse.