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...
The Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal published a great article last week. 17 Navy SEAL Principles That Every Salesperson Should Practice (by Gregg Swanson) is actually written for the benefit of...
Facebook, not the typical scholarly source for information, referenced an article in Forbes titled Ten Things I Couldn't Care Less About When I'm Hiring (by Liz Ryan). I like lists - I...
Approximately 130 to 160 e-mails per day per person here . . . . . . some are advertisements/Groupons; some are from professional associations or organizations we have 'subscribed' to. Many (hopefully, most) are from people we have reached out to on behalf of our...
Our last blog post talked about relocation - and the need to address the question directly. Will you relocate? If a position requires you work at a certain location, this is a rather basic question. There is another area that requires a rather basic...
One of our current (and wonderful) clients was telling me a story of a recent search they were conducting (this client uses multiple firms depending on the level and/or function of the role). The story was about a candidate they loved for a high-travel senior...