There’s a quiet irony in the market right now, everyone’s desperate for senior talent, yet no one’s building it. Every second client I speak to says, “We need a senior. We don’t have time to train.” And every recruiter knows what happens next: three months later, that same role is still open . It ’s not that senior developers, analysts, or engineers don’t exist, it’s that companies want unicorns : people with 10 years’ experience, five tech stacks, leadership exposure, and a
