What makes a Highly Successful Entrepreneur? 10 Traits to Look For

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Gallup has identified 10 traits that best characterize an entrepreneur. In an exhaustive survey, Inc. and Gallup zeroed in on founders from this year’s Inc. 5000 who best embody them. Knowledge: Deploys expertise to secure competitive advantage, always strives to acquire in-depth information about their organization and industry Delegation:  Assigns tasks to others, proactively collaborates, […]

The Talent Shortage Demands a New Hiring Strategy

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Lou Adler wrote a great post on LinkedIn regarding the importance of adopting a new hiring strategy as the talent shortage continues to get worse. I have attached the link here: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/low-unemployment-job-growth-demands-new-hiring-strategy-lou-adler/ He provides some valuable insight into the talent acquisition process and how to adapt your talent hiring strategy to get better results for […]

Get Better Talent Sourcing Results

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The latest data from LinkedIn provides great information to work with in developing your talent strategy in today’s labor market. Talent strategy should be done prior to beginning your talent sourcing. You can read the full report here. Hiring was strong in April, up 19.8% from last year at the same time. There is a […]

Outperforming your Competitors Using a Talent to Value Approach

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McKinsey wrote this great article regarding Linking Talent to value that is a great read for any executive trying to build and sustain high performance teams. https://www.mckinsey.com/business-functions/organization/our-insights/linking-talent-to-value The shift in thought process is to not see the executive team as the only place in an organization to find the most important positions. Using a talent […]

Values Fit Improves Business Performance

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Whether you are the employer interviewing a candidate or a candidate interviewing an employer, understanding the values fit is key to finding the best fit. Laszlo Bock, Former Google Head of People Operations, in the attached video Landing a job 101: What you need to know discusses the best questions to ask to define culture/values for […]

Job Postings Cannot Close the Skills Gap

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US job openings soar to record high of 6.3 million This January saw the largest increase in job postings in 2.5 years, with 645,000 new jobs being posted.  The economy is booming, and at 4.1% unemployment is at a 17 year low.  And that’s for jobs across all industries and levels.  When you look at […]

Will 2018 see an increase in women CEO’s?

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March 8th  was International Women’s Day so thought it a great time to take a look at women’s employment and gain a solid picture of the progress women have made in employment in the United States with a specific focus on women in leadership, in the CEO suite. While overall employment for women in the […]

AI and Executive Search – Art meets Science

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I, Robot Over the past few years Artificial Intelligence and Machine learning have become popular subjects of debate.  Incredible technological advances are disrupting industries from Advertising to Finance to Transportation and seemingly everything in between.  And AI has sprung up as a component of talent acquisition with everything from Chatbots as part of the initial […]

Hiring Trends for 2018 | How to Make a Positive Impact

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As we have just began 2018, thought it a great time to focus on the Employer hiring trends for 2018. Indeed published a great survey highlighting hiring trends for the upcoming year. I have included the link here. http://blog.indeed.com/2017/11/27/employer-outlook-2018-survey/ To sum up the hiring trend findings, here are the key points:   61% of companies […]

Understanding the Different Types of Executive Search

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This blog post on understanding the different types of executive search has been our most successful so thought it worth a refresh as some of the information has changed since we originally posted. There are different types of Executive Search and each is effective in its own way. The difference is primarily in the level of […]