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Guilty as charged – I have high self-esteem. I said high – not over-inflated. So shoot me now. Hell, I don’t have a choice – I run my own company, and kudos either come from within or they do not exist. Period. I have always been self-motivated and I push myself to achieve certain goals I establish in both my personal life and in business. …
Dear Corporate HR Friends, You know that tough job opening that’s been on your books a while now? The one with the hard-to-find skills and a hard-to-please hiring manager? Why haven’t you engaged an executive search firm yet? (Was it the mind-boggling cost? No definitive timeline for results? Uncertainty about getting any results? Or perhaps your last experience just didn’t …
You might think that during the holidays, people would be in a good mood. I am (I mean, I was). 2010 was a good year, and things truly started to make the turn from a hiring standpoint. I didn’t say we were there yet – only that things are looking better. Much better. 2010 was one of our better years. Historically, December has …
Don’t let the title of this post fool you. I’m referring to the way candidates (and people in general) are judged in the recruiting and hiring process. Society places (way) too much attention on how we should look and I’m convinced it has spilled over into the hiring game. In many cases, screening candidates is probably based largely on their visual appearance. …
Yes – Yes and Yes. No need to think too much about this one unless sales isn’t your chosen line of work. For sales professionals, answering this question during an interview is a different deal altogether. Good sales people are money motivated – thank God. If you are driven and motivated by money – admit it. Plain and simple, no need to beat …
Here we go again – everybody is a search professional. So let’s play a little round of… Do-it-Yourself Executive Search. Some organizations (okay-some executive search wanna-be’s) decide for some reason (without notice) that they would be better at taking the reigns and leading the search efforts in a critical search engagement without notice and apparently without a care (or a clue) in …
I use FOT as a great venue to rant from time to time to my HR and recruiter brethren and today will be no exception. Let me whiteboard this scenario for you – my point won’t be hard to understand (promise). I’m sure you have all seen this movie before. I’m constantly amazed at human behavior when it comes to candidates we work with and …
It’s interesting to profile certain types of organizations that we have worked with over the years. Some organizations are clearly transactional, just get the job. They prefer to conduct their own process. They don’t return phone calls or e-mails (promptly) – all they really want is a few resumes. They prefer to to take matters into their own hands and conduct the search their …
When HP fired Mark Hurd in August, everyone had an opinion about whether it was a good HR move or not. Late Thursday, HP’s board announced that they had hired Léo Apotheker as Hurd’s replacement to be President and CEO, and early opinions on the wisdom of this choice are not kind. Here is the background: Apotheker worked for 20 …
