Executive recruiters offer executive job search advice for the C-Suite!
An executive job search can be a lengthy process. As you get more senior, there are fewer and fewer opportunities that are likely ...
CEO Jobs and the executive career strategy
The job tenure of a Chief Executive Officer is falling. While extreme examples – such as John Flannery at General Electric Co who ...
Executive Search in the Internet Sector
I’ve been headhunting within the internet space since the very beginning of my career in 2004, and more by luck than by judgment, ...
Sometimes a backwards or sidew...
Healthcare Executive Search – The rise of the specialist
Interesting data on hiring trends in the healthcare sector, according to this piece from Modern Healthcare. In short, healthcare executive search firms are ...
Executive Search for Startups
Many people assume that retained executive search is primarily used by global organizations to fill the C-Suite. That might have been the case ...
Ultimately, the qualities a st...
From career crisis to CEO
How does an executive go from crisis to CEO? That’s the question posed in this essay from the Harvard Business Review. The conclusions? ...
Most leaders are, deep down, a...
From the Doctor’s office to the Corner office?
This very interesting piece of research published in Modern Healthcare magazine suggests that executive search firms in the healthcare sector are increasingly shortlisting ...
The Wisdom of Lee Iacocca – and implications for your career
The recent passing of Lee Iacocca – fired as the President of Ford Motors in 1978 before delivering one of the greatest comebacks ...
I’ve got to get stop getting...
Personally Disrupted – CEOs who don’t keep up with change
I’ve always had an interest in “business case studies” – Barbarians at the Gate is one of very few books I’ve read twice ...
Succession planning on the rise – more firms hiring CEOs from within
Data can always be used to tell a story, particularly when the sample size is small. This article in City AM does suggest, however, ...
The average tenure for bosses ...