For the executive interviewee, panel interviews can be a minefield. They are unpredictable in several ways: You may not know who the interviewers are, what their role in the company…
California has joined Oregon, Delaware, Massachusetts, and New York City as areas with laws banning all employers from asking about pay history. What led to the establishment of these laws?…
It used to be that to get a top executive, you figured out what salary you wanted to pay, offered a bonus that might be discretionary, and extended the offer. …
When a hiring manager conducts an interview, he or she is usually most concerned about what to ask the candidate, and how to evaluate the candidate’s answers qualitatively. Most interviewers…
All employers seem to want a Change Agent. As executive search professionals, we hear from employers when they need a person who can make a difference. Sometimes the incumbent has…
If you are in internal recruiting, 3rd party recruiting, or you are an HR leader, you know that one of your worst nightmares is when your Hiring Managers change the…
If you are an executive contemplating a job change with a physical move, the odds are you have consulted an on-line salary calculator tool, hoping it will give you guidance…
We read a lot of web pages (while sourcing candidates), and we read a lot of resumes. We have noticed more and more the homogenization and commoditization of language –…
Every year, the use of e-mail, texting, chat apps, and other electronic communication increases, and the rate of phone communication decreases. Companies are moving to evaluating people by computer analysis…
Is Your Strategic Plan Increasing Company Value? – Larry O’Toole, Yosemite Associates
In executing your annual strategic plan, do you know what its impact will be on the future value of your company? As a CEO for 20 years, I’ve led teams in developing…...
Harvard School Professor Clayton Christensen coined the phrase Disruptive Innovation to describe technology and products that would challenge the status quo by achieving better performance goals more simply, with a…...
