Talent Management

Friday, June 26th, 2009 - Career Change, Career Development, Employment, Executive Recruitment, Executive Search, Job Search, Recruitment


Talent Management In the week of Wimbledon, and when most of the British entrants bar Scot’s Andy Murray and Elena Baltacha failed to make it past round1, the subject for this blog entry is talent management. Something which reading this article, it would seem is an art the LTA has still not perfected You may [...]

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Executive Coaching

Monday, June 8th, 2009 - Career Development, Executive Coaching, Executive Recruitment, Personal Development


Executive Coaching photo credit: UF Digital Collections I have to admit, before you read this piece, that I am highly cynical of the majority of Executive Coaching. This is wholly based on one element: the term has been market spun by the Executive Coaches from an excellent internal company practise, to a piece of marketing [...]

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What to do before the process of Executive Search

Monday, May 18th, 2009 - Career Development, Executive Search, Headhunter, Job Search


Before the process of Executive Search Every executive in almost every position wants to be head hunted, or to use the modern term, be found by an Executive Search company. Being asked by an Executive Recruiter for a conversation and then a follow up meeting, having sent through a copy of your Executive CV, is [...]

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Which are the main competencies to assess an executive search consultant?

Saturday, April 25th, 2009 - Career Development, Employment, Recruitment


Executive Search Consultant Adina asks: Which are the main competencies to assess an executive search consultant, and hence what would be found on their Executive CV? In answer: There are certain key skills that they must have, without which they can not perform and hence deliver. The most important skill is communication, that’s in both [...]

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Do you need an Executive Coach?

Saturday, April 25th, 2009 - Career Development, Personal Development


Do you need an Executive Coach? Francine Allaire, Chief Life Strategist at The Daring, LLC asks: If you can’t afford a coach, what are executives doing to support their professional growth? In answer: As an executive head-hunter/recruiter and Executive CV Writer, I love (?) the assumptive nature of this question: that everyone needs a coach; [...]

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