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The Good Search CEO Krista Bradford is here to help make executive recruiting smarter, easier, and less stressful for you. A former Emmy-Award winning investigative reporter and television journalist, Ms. Bradford digs deep to share leadership talent acquisition secrets and best practices.
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How Client Blockage Cripples Executive Search And What To Do About it
How Client Blockage Cripples Executive Search (And What to Do About It) The world's leading retained executive search firms have a client blockage problem. A big one. And that problem makes executive search buyers and the leading retained search firms a bit wary of...
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The Secret to AI Executive Search
The Secret to AI Executive SearchExecutive search is hard. AI executive search is even harder. That's because there is a growing shortage of the best-of-the-best Artificial Intelligence minds. That shortage has turned AI leadership compensation packages...
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Headhunter Beats LinkedIn
Headhunter Beats LinkedIn in Google TrendsNearly twice as many people type the keyword "Headhunter" into the search as they do for the "LinkedIn Recruiter" platform. If I were asked to interpret the data, I'd say it suggests companies still need headhunters to do...
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The Cost of Devaluing Women Executives
The Cost of Devaluing Women Executives Sallie Krawcheck has witnessed the cost of devaluing women executives first hand over the course of her storied Wall Street career. Ms. Krawcheck got her start on Wall Street in the late 1980s at Salomon...
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The Silence Breakers Beget The Pay Raisers
The Silence Breakers Beget The Pay Raisers Equal Pay for Women 2018 will be the Year of The Pay Raisers. Equal pay is my wish for the New Year. It is an aspiration inspired by Time Magazine naming The Silence Breakers as its Person of the Year 2017. In so doing, Time...
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How to Tell If Your Company Is Ready for AI
Is Your Company Ready for AI?Is your company ready for AI? It seems a simple enough question about Artificial Intelligence. To determine if you're ready for AI, all you need do is look back to the dawn of the Internet era for the answer. Back then, most retailers were...
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Why Companies Block Recruiter Calls and Emails: They Think They Own You
Why Companies Block Recruiter Calls and Emails Companies block recruiter calls and emails to prevent headhunters from poaching talent. The puppetmaster impulse is understandable. Most enterprises invest a small fortune to recruit, train, and onboard senior executives...
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LinkedIn Skill Endorsements: Fatuous or Fiction?
LinkedIn Skill Endorsements LinkedIn Skill Endorsements are an unreliable measure of the quality of the endorsed executive. Still, I must confess that whenever I receive a LinkedIn Skill Endorsement, I get a little thrill that someone has recognized my expertise. But...
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How to Get to Know a Retained Executive Recruiter
Stalking the Elusive Retained Recruiter Senior executives are often advised to cultivate a relationship with a leading retained executive recruiter as a way to get ahead. That's not an easy thing to do. Say you've done all that a good executive should do. You've...
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Woman Speaker Mandate #LetHerSpeak
Woman Speaker Shortage Susan Danziger, the Founder and CEO of Ziggeo, offers up a frank observation in a recent blog post: Spotlighting Females at Conferences: A Mandate for Change. She noticed The woman that's brought you video technology that lets you record, curate...
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To Recruit Rock Stars, It Helps to Know Them
To Recruit Rock Stars, It Helps to Know Them Headhunters regularly say they recruit rock star executives, but few know what that really means. The vast majority of executive recruiters have never known a single rock star. They haven't a clue what it takes to perform...
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Gender Equality and the C-Suite
Gender Equality and the C-Suite Gender equality and the empowerment of women does not begin in the C-Suite. It starts in childhood in the classroom. The Good Search is an executive search practice that helps companies boost their diversity at the senior executive...
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Retained Search Firm Diversity Video
Retained Search Firm Diversity Video [clickToTweet tweet="Does the lack of search firm diversity affect the diversity of the executives that they recruit? " quote="It seems reasonable to wonder whether the lack of retained search firm diversity has a bearing...
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When the Best Person for the Job Happens to Be Diverse
When the Best Candidate Happens to Be Diverse Companies seeking to boost executive diversity frequently will say that they want a top performer who "happens to be diverse". The phrase gets tacked on as a kind of disclaimer. On the one hand, employers want to affirm...
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Gender Pay Gap Stats
Gender Pay Gap Stats in Developed Nations Newsflash: there's a gender pay gap. Women make less than men in the developed world. (Okay, okay. We know this already. This is just my clumsy attempt at wry humor in face of the latest reminder that we female types have...
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Silicon Valley Wants Black Coders. What’s The Issue?
Silicon Valley Companies Say They Want Black Coders Ken Chenault is not a coder. He has a B.A. in history from Bowdoin College and a J.D. from Harvard Law School. He is the CEO of American Express. I had the good fortune to get to know him years ago. Our...
read moreExecutive Search Firm Diversity Matters
Why Executive Search Firm Diversity Matters I've been chewing on it a while. I've had something I've wanted to say. Executive search firm diversity matters. I know it is impolitic to discuss issues with one's own industry. I am fully aware it is so much safer to...
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What Adoption Did to Steve Jobs
What Adoption Did to Steve Jobs The film Steve Jobs by director Danny Boyle and screenwriter Aaron Sorkin speaks the truth in a way no other film has about Steve Jobs and about the adoption experience for adult adoptees. It provides a sense of what adoption did to...
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Boston VC Firm Invests in Working Mother
Boston VC Firm Invests in Working Mother Venture capitalists are all about the money. I say this in a good way: they do the math. So when the founder of the boston venture capital firm OpenView Scott Maxwell lays his bets on a working mother -- a story reported by...
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How to Support Women Like Bradley Cooper
How to Support Women Colleagues Like Bradley Cooper Actor Bradley Cooper has a way of taking a woman's breath away. But now he's topped himself. LennyLetter is reporting How Bradley Cooper Is Helping His Female Co-Stars Negotiate Higher Pay. The newly launched...
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Best Buy Gender Diversity Lesson
A Lesson in Gender Diversity Best Buy offers us a lesson in gender diversity. The best man for a job is a woman, times three. Financial Officer Sharon McCollam, President eCommerce Mary Lou Kelley, and US Retail President Shari Ballard have architected the turnaround...
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Make Your Next C-Level Hire a Woman
Make Your Next C-Level Hire a Woman More companies are committing to gender equality. That's the good news, according to McKinsey's Women in the Workplace 2017. The study was conducted in partnership LeanIn.Org and examines data from 222 companies with more than 12...
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Unconscious Gender Bias in Executive Search
The Unconscious Gender Bias Within Unconscious gender bias at the senior executive level is real. In fact, it may be one of the primary reasons so many companies that want to be diverse have so few women at the senior executive level. I head a retained executive...
read more Recruit A Players | Steve Jobs Quote
Recruit A-Players | Steve Jobs Quote When you recruit A-Players and you are channelling a key talent acquisition strategy of Apple founder Steve Jobs. There's a vast difference between talent that is simply qualified and exceptional. Jobs understood that, which is why...
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Selecting the Right Search Firm Type
Selecting the Right Search Firm Type The first step to selecting a search firm is deciding what search firm type you need. If you are a CEO who is new to the world of executive search, there are critical differences between search firm business models of which you...
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Executive Search and the Art of Finding Your Person
Finding Your Person In executive search, candidate finalists start to resemble one another. They all are incredibly accomplished. They all have stellar reputations. All should have a track record of outperforming their peers. Everything else being equal, candidate...
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Google Shows Men Ads for Better Jobs
Google Shows Men Ads for Better Jobs Before I get to the study that found Google Shows Men Ads for Better Jobs, let's try an experiment. In an ideal world where women make up 50% of the population, every other CEO should be a woman. Of course, our world treats does...
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Outliers: The Story of Success
Outliers In his book Outliers, Author Malcolm Gladwell asks: What makes high-achievers different? He answers that we pay too much attention to what successful people are like, and too little attention to where they are from. We don't pay enough attention to their...
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Cybersecurity Classic The Art of Deception
Cybersecurity Classic The Art of Deception The Art of Deception is a brilliant cybersecurity book written by legendary hacker Kevin Mitnick. In stunning detail, he shares how social engineering works -- how he and other hackers con people into giving up passwords,...
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Mr. Robot and the Hackers We Recruit
Mr. Robot and the Hackers We Recruit As a technology search firm, we have had the opportunity to recruit luminaries who have experimented with hacking. Some even do it for a living, to make our connected systems more secure. However, few people outside the technology...
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