It is a relatively quiet week . . . . . so it is time to catch up on last year’s reading (the pile I kept) and plan for the year to come. I was reading HR Magazine and a quote caught my eye:
“Job security is a myth. Set up Me Inc. – a...
Search number 600+ started last week. The client is a wonderful organization that we have worked with before. We have had the privilege of placing and/or working with most of their senior team. We have worked with them for over eight...
I spent 7 years working in the outplacement/career transition industry. Four of the six of us at Abeln, Magy, Underberg & Associates came from the same outplacement company. Each person we worked with had their own story – about why they were there (in...
I was reading the September, 2017 HR Magazine (a SHRM publication) while waiting for a colleague to join me at a breakfast meeting. There was a small article in the HR News section on parents of employees who want to be involved in their adult children’s...
Clients often ask search firms how they are different from others. There are many angles from which to view a given firm’s differentiation—geographic focus, industry sector specialization, and functional focus, to name a few. However, one of the...
On August 1st (2017), we start year 22 as a Retained Executive Search firm. Ken and Mary Abeln, co-founders with me (David Magy), actually set up our firm a month earlier – working on all of the business and legal requirements to start operating on...
Can you ask a person’s salary history? Does it matter what they make or made? Doesn’t the company have a range they work from?
These are great questions – and have been asked for what seems to be forever – since I first entered the human...
Go to the website of most search firms. They are similar - approach, team, etc. But something is often missing.
Off-Limits
This is a topic that is rarely proactive asked about, but has been one of the reasons we have...
It's 2017. There are terms we should know (many we do) and discuss for this year. Many have interesting workplace implications/meanings. Here are a few of them!
Phubbing – phone snubbing; pretending to be...
Our clients and candidates often look to us for trend information. What is new out there? We as a search firm can talk about the economy, but future trends are different. For that I rely on multiple experts including J. Walter Thompson, a global...