For years, I have been making presentations on “How To Work With A Recruiter” for varying groups of executives. There seems to be a great deal of mystique surrounding what executive search firms do/how we perform our work. Let’s try to demystify the...
3 Different Clients - 3 Similar Stories - All Within The Last Few Months
Abeln, Magy, Underberg & Associates is a retained-only search firm. For over 25 years, this has been our business. We have never wavered . . . . never taking on contingent...
I speak on employment and economic topics with some frequency. The start of the year often finds me addressing the economy and business trends with varying professional groups. I speak on employment topics throughout the year. The job market we are in...
A ‘Networking’ Goal
It’s a rule in networking . . . . . you are at a non-business-related function (a neighborhood party, a school activity for one of your children, etc.). You meet someone - and you become known as Michelle’s father or Adam’s...
Each year, Wunderman Thompson (the ‘old’ J. Walter Thompson organization) publishes a list of trends that will impact us for the year as well as for the foreseeable future. This year’s list has a couple of new categories (there are always 10 categories with...
This past month, I was honored to be a speaker for a Family Business group on the topic of Finding & Keeping Key Non-Family Employees. As I told the person responsible for the program, ‘keeping’ was going to be my focus...
The employment marketplace - more complex every day. Since the start of the pandemic, every person has had a chance to reflect on work, life, balance, etc. The outcomes for each individual are as diverse as the people themselves. What we have found -...
Our 25th anniversary celebrations continue! As part of our 25th anniversary celebrations, we have created a list of 25 bullet points representing some of the lessons we have learned and observations we have made over the years.
Last month, we shared the...
We have reached a very exciting milestone here at Abeln, Magy, Underberg & Associates: We are proud to be celebrating 25 years in business!
The idea to establish the firm came about in 1996. Then business partners at Career Dynamics (a career management...
You weren’t expecting a key position to become open, but it is happening with greater frequency. In a ‘normal’ economy with low unemployment (think pre-COVID), it is considered a sign of confidence in the market when people leave their jobs voluntarily and...