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...

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 trustworthy candidates that you are unable...

When recruiting C-Suite Executive Talent, compensation discussion often comes up early. After all, everyone's time is valuable, best not to waste it on someone who is not going to accept an offer that is not in your range. Even more perplexing is how to navigate the...

Danielle McDonnell Boyd Head of Regulatory and Quality Cala Health Danielle McDonnell Boyd Danielle joins Cala Health with over 13 years experience in Regulatory Affairs, Clinical Research, Quality Systems and project management for pre and post market stages of Class...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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 ...

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...

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 ...

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:...