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...
We interview people for a living. We don’t interview many, however. We talk to hundreds – many of those conversations are short. We explain why we are calling. We explore the basics of an opportunity to see if it is appropriate for the person...
Many of you know that I am a data junkie. Each morning I have a routine that includes looking at 3 newspapers (on-line, of course), oil and gas futures, Conference Board reports and stock futures. I tweet (follow me: @David_Magy)...
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...
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...
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...
My co-founders and I have different start dates for Abeln, Magy, Underberg & Associates. Ken/Mary Abeln and I (David Magy) started the firm in 1996 . . . . . Ken and Mary on July 1, 1996 - with me joining them on August 1, 1996. (My delay - completing my transition...
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...