Category: Succession Planning

  • Celebrating Our 25th Anniversary

    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...

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  • Being Prepared for an Active Job Market

    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...

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  • Family and Privately-Held Businesses

    One of the focus areas of Abeln, Magy, Underberg & Associates is working with family-owned and closely-held businesses. Over the years, we have had the pleasure of working with newer family enterprises, as well as those with long and proud histories. Clients have...

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  • We often ask potential candidates if they are ready for a change.

    We have had to ask ourselves that same question. January is that time, when it is natural to think about changes, starting with writing the new year--2020. And 2020 has already brought about several changes:  Our...

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  • 2019 – A Year of Change

    It has been a great year!  Busy – thank you to our clients.  You put your trust in us – we worked hard to find you the people you needed.  We can’t thank you enough for allowing us to be your Retained Search partner.  Our team – we...

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  • Economic Trends

    I recently had the pleasure of addressing a group of in-transition executives.  The presentation title was Marketplace Trends.  The presentation covered a multitude of areas (I mentioned in the last post -...

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  • Strategic Talent Management: Take Action!

    As you know from past posts, I am a fan of ERE.net's articles.  Toward the end of last year, there was a wonderful article entitled Why Not Start the New Year by Doing Something Strategic in Talent...

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  • Looking out to 2020!

    War for Talent – a term coined and researched by McKinsey & Company starting in 1997.  The conclusion – key talent for many roles was going to be in short supply.  Fast forward (there was certainly more in between) to 2003.  A book was written, ...

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  • Post and Pray?

    As part of some pre-work for a retained search industry conference I helped plan (conference was held at the end of April), I asked a few of our clients about their perspective on the market, and their workforce and succession planning plans.  Each of the people on the...

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  • Reading Piles!

    E-mails, magazines, books, etc.  We all have too much to read - but great intentions.  We put things in piles - with great hope of reaching the bottom some day.  As mentioned in an earlier post, I read HR Magazine (SHRM's publication) in 5 minute increments - usually...

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