Our blog articles cover topics such as succession planning, ethics, economic trends, compensation, employee engagement and recruiting. New posts are added each month by firm Principal, David Magy.

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• Honored, Humble and Grateful – What This Executive Search Recognition Means To Us

  May 2026

  Honored, Humble and Grateful Abeln, Magy, Underberg & Associates has been named to the Forbes' 2026 America's Best Executive Recruiting Firms list.  (See ...

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• Getting Retained Executive Search Right: Success Starts With Process

  April 2026

  I was recently having lunch with an HR colleague (this was in late February).  We discussed a ‘troubled’ President search going on at her company.  There is a search firm working on it; they are a firm that works extensively (almost exclusively) through PE...

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• Retirement Trends Are Changing the Executive Search Conversation

  March 2026

  Every month I get to write a Blog on a topic that relates to Executive Search – usually from the perspective of my firm.  Topics can be quite diverse – ethics is one of my favorites.  The market, demographics and trends are all areas I like to...

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• From the Other Side of the Desk: How Retained Executive Search Firms Experience Candidate Outreach

  February 2026

  We are still early in the year.  Resolutions are fading, but there is one I am still seeing.  It is one that I see at the start of each new year.  People start looking outside of their current position to see what else might be out there.  While the...

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• Retained Executive Search: What It Is—and What It Isn’t

  January 2026

  Retained Executive Search – Erroneous Beliefs and Truths (and My Favorite Saying: “That’s Why They Call It Search”) We are in our thirtieth year (yes – year 30).  When people ask me what I do for a living, I respond with three words,...

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• Stop Reading the News (At Least the Bad News): Executive Search Offers a More Balanced Story

  December 2025

  As I referenced in our November Blog (see https://www.abelnmagy.com/blog/new-and-old-blending-timeless-leadership-skills-with-modern-realities), I recently...

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• New and Old: Blending Timeless Leadership Skills with Modern Realities

  November 2025

  Over the past few weeks, I have had the privilege of being a guest speaker for two very different groups – a class on Business and Professional Ethics (an Augsburg University MBA class) and a group for Vantage Executive & Career Services.  The topics – vastly...

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• An Executive Search Firm’s Perspective: Ethics From The Employer Side – Are Job Ads Real?

  October 2025

  Ethics – something we consider incredibly important for and from everyone.  This is our number one most written-about Blog topic.  We usually talk about the importance of candidates telling us the truth.  The focus is on accurate titles, job histories,...

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• Cracking The Job Hugging Trend: Insights From Executive Search

  September 2025

  Early this month, I had the opportunity to speak to a group of people in job transition.  My topic:  Terms Tell The Story.  This is a presentation I have been giving (and constantly updating) for the last two years.  The terms – all...

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• A Retained Executive Search Firm’s Perspective: There’s a Commute in Your Future!

  August 2025

  I am sure I am not the only person that remembers when the pandemic started and how it impacted all of us.  For the U.S., it is just a couple days short of 5 years and 5 months ago.  Terminology Started To Appear Almost immediately after...

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