Gaining the Focus of Remote Employees
In this digital-age leaders are already vying for attention from their teams. The digital divide has happened. People are distracted by social media, glued to their mobile devices for texts, email, and calls. Now people are not even in the office anymore - no more...
Video Interviews – Getting It Right
How we conduct business these past 11 months, and perhaps how we behave going forward radically changed. This includes the in-person interview. The current COVID-19 pandemic has everyone in lock down or modified work schedules: working from home, limiting or canceling...
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Why Can’t I Hire My First Choice Candidate? Five Factors to Consider
No doubt, it is a difficult employment market for top talent. Salaries are increasing, Covid Stress is worsening, working from home is now the norm. Top talent often has more than one choice, and is likely considering 2-3 offers at once, and now has more opportunity...
Why “I’ll Know it When I See it” is not an Effective Recruitment Strategy
We have all done it. We have an opening for a key executive and get introduced to someone or meet someone at an industry networking event (or Zoom) and think ... "that's the person for this job." You decide to hire that individual and everything seems to work out for...
Hallmarks of a Good Decision Maker
Why are some executives considered great decision makers and others are only good or adequate? Great decision makers know when to delegate decisions, understand the risk of not delegating decisions, and when it is critical to make the call themselves. These great...
How to Avoid Hiring Other Company’s Rejects
Recently, candidates have become highly sophisticated at marketing themselves. Through LinkedIn and other forms of social media, candidates have become experts at framing themselves in a positive light with their resume, interview skills and persona. Unfortunately,...
Is Your Recruiting Process Up for Success?
We have all done it. We have said, "I need to hire a _____________". We put the word out to our network, and find a few candidates to speak with, but no one impressed us or seemed like the right fit. We keep searching or decide to make a hire from our "ho-hum" pool of...
Search Completion Announcement – Jaguar Health
Melissa A. Yeager, J.D. SVP Regulatory Affairs and Quality Jaguar Health Melissa A. Yeager, J.D. Melissa joins Jaguar Health with 20 years of experience developing biopharmaceuticals. Companies she has lead regulatory affairs are: Alder Pharmaceuticals, Breath...
Building Rapid Trust: Assess & Verify
When we are interviewing people to join our clients' teams we are closely looking into what the person's work history. We explore what kind of character traits this person possesses and how the person communicates trust. We listen to their stories about their...
Virtual Trust: Part Two
How Can I Demonstrate Trust in a Virtual World? We have been living and adapting to very few (or zero) in-person meetings and interviews. Meeting online in a video room can be more productive for people who already are familiar with each other, and have experience...
Virtual Trust: Part One
How do you know you can trust the candidate without meeting them in person? This is the first in a three part series of blogs written as a tool for you to use during this pandemic and beyond. This tool will help you identify ...
Selecting the Right CEO for Your Company
Large companies are able to craft robust succession plans, while the middle market and smaller companies often have difficulty finding and retaining successors. CEOs impact the company's strategy, execution and ultimately business and financial...
How Your Brand Impacts Attracting Senior Executives
You as a brand, is a popular concept. It seems that people are embracing this tenet and communicating their brand in their LinkedIn profiles, Twitter handles, resumes, and other social media profiles. How does this apply to the selection and ...
Hiring Exceptional Leaders: Defining Chemistry
Executive recruiters hear from clients nearly every day- "we chose the candidate because we felt he had the right chemistry". While this sounds good, how do you define Chemistry? Our clients seem to instinctively know when the right candidate is interviewed and...
Can You Trust LinkedIn Profiles?
You can't assess a whole person from a LinkedIn profile alone. You only see what people want you to see. LinkedIn is a great tool to identify potential talent. In fact, LinkedIn is so powerful, leadership candidates now hire consultants to ...
What Investors Look For in Leadership Teams
I was recently asked to join an investor panel, we were presenting to other investors, about how we perform due diligence of a company's management team. Investors, as you may know, evaluate three categories when considering an investment:...
Managing Candidate’s Perception of Risk
We have all experienced it - make a great offer and boom, and your C-Suite candidate declines. WHAT??? How does this happen? After all, you received verbal acceptance, you checked references and the last thing you thought was that the candidate was all in - or were...
Five Attributes for the Ideal CEO
Whether you are running a consumer health, medical device or a life science company, you need the strongest CEO possible to lead in this dynamic business climate. All CEO's need to have deep expertise of their subject matter in the industry. Full life-cycle product...
Hiring Roadblocks: Backdoor References
You are recruiting a Vice President for a key role. You have hired a search professional because you have run out of network. The senior recruiter has met your team, understands your company goals and objectives, and pulls together a targeted position description. You...
Are You Getting The Right Results From Your Recruiting Process?
We have all done it. We have said, "I need to hire a _____________". We put the word out to our network, and find a few candidates to speak with, but no one really impressed us or seemed like the right fit. We keep searching or decide to make a hire from our "ho-hum"...